The Chief Economist Team is responsible for the series’ publication, including the peer review of the papers.
1. Working papers
This collection encompasses evidence-based analytical working papers elaborated by this Commission department, at times in collaboration with others.
It also includes working papers that result fromDG GROW’s Fellowship Programme, as well as conference papers (evidence-based analytical papers by external experts) selected for presentation at previous editions of DG GROW’sSingle Market Research Conference, organised by the Chief Economist Team.
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- Béatrice Dumont, Xosé-Luís Varela-Irimia
Supply chain stress tests for critical inputs: a proof-of-concept
WP2024/27 - This paper aims to develop a ‘proof of concept’ for testing the resilience of sectoral supply chain networks at firm level against an exogenous shock to critical inputs.
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- Matthias Weitzel, Rafael Garaffa, Camille Van der Vorst
Assessing the Impact of High Energy Prices on Tourism in the EU
WP2024/26 - This paper uses the computable general equilibrium model JRC-GEM-E3 to assess how energy price shocks affect the tourism industry in the EU.
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- Lionel Fontagné, Yoto V Yotov
Reassessing the Impact of the Single Market and Its Ability to Help Build Strategic Autonomy
WP2024/25 - The paper shows that the gains from European integration are substantial, albeit heterogeneous across Member States and sectors, and that the cost of strategic autonomy can be offset by deeper, but comparatively more modest, integration efforts within the European Single Market.
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- Aliénor Cameron, Maria Garrone
(Conference Paper) Carbon Intensity and Corporate Performance: A Micro-Level Study of EU ETS Industrial Firms
WP2024/24 - The EU Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) is at the core of the bloc's industrial decarbonization efforts. This paper explores whether there is a causal relationship between industrial firms’ emission intensity and their economic and financial performance.
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- Rachel M Hayes, Roger Silvers
(Conference Paper) Institutional Mobility in Global Capital Markets
WP2024/23 - This paper focuses on how fragmented regulatory authority exposes foreign investors to expropriation and information risks.
2. Economic briefs
This collection encompasses evidence-based analytical Economic Briefs by the Chief Economist Team, at times in collaboration with others. The Chief Economist Team is responsible for the series’ publication.
This section also includes Economic Briefs that result from DG GROW’s Fellowship Programme.
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- José Manuel Rueda-Cantuche, Luis Enrique Pedauga, Juan Carlos Ruiz-García, Daria Ciriaci
Green transition, single market and EU’s open strategic autonomy: the impact of state aid
The paper looks at the effects of state aid on the green transition and the EU Single Market.
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- Paolo Pasimeni
2004-2024: Twenty Years after the Big Enlargement. Integration within the Single Market
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic impact of the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. Drawing from the economic literature and descriptive analysis, the paper examines both anticipated benefits and realized outcomes.
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- Andrea Renda
What 'North Star' for EU industrial policy
Faced withseveral outstanding challenges and unresolved dilemmas, this brief analyses the future of EU industrial policy.
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- Francesca Guadagno, Robert Stehrer
The EU27’s ‘energy-renewables’ ecosystem: Importance, dependencies and policy aspects
The energy-renewables ecosystem (ERES) plays a particularly important role in the green transition. This paper analyses its relevance in EU countries and its competitiveness for the EU27 as a whole vis-à-vis other global players.
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- Marina Ranga
Towards Single Market 2.0: European Green Deal effects on the EU’s Industrial Ecosystems
This brief analyses how the European Green Deal adopted by the European Commission in December 2019 brought major opportunities to transform the EU’s single market for the net-zero age.
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- William Connell-Garcia, Maria Garrone
Reshaping the Road Ahead: Exploring Supply Chain Transformations in the EU Automobile Industry
This study considers some challenges in the automobile industry of the EU taking into account its relatively historical privileged international position.
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- Slavo Radosevic
EU single market embracing ‘green' industrial policy: paradigm shift and challenges
This brief explores thesingle market's transition from a rules-based open market to a mechanism focused on promoting green growth locally and globally.
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- Román Arjona, Francesco Di-Comite, Paolo Pasimeni
Implications of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine for the European Economy
This economic briefprovides an overview of economic and trade exposures of the EU economy to Russia, including on strategic dependencies.
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- William Connell-Garcia, Francesco Di-Comite, Maria Garrone
Evidence on the Exposure and Impact of the Ongoing Energy Crisis on the EU Industry
This brief analyses this ongoing energy crisis with respect to the EU industry, including the overall EU’s structural composition, price competitiveness and trade in the energy market vis-à-vis third partners.
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- Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Green bottlenecks and the role of finance
This economic brief concerns‘green bottlenecks’ and the role of finance in the green transition.
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