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INTERECONOMICS – REVIEW OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC POLICY
Newsletter – Volume 52,
July/August 2017

In the latest issue of Intereconomics, ten economists debate the achievements and shortcomings of the Digital Single Market strategy in our Forum. This issue’s Letter from America looks at the battle over health care in the US, while the Editorial assesses the prospect that Macron’s electoral victory will lead to a renewal of European momentum. Elsewhere, this issue’s diverse range of articles cover national money creation in EMU countries, growth forecasts for China, European subsidiarity and a new perspective on business cycle synchronisation in the eurozone.

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Featured Topic

The European Digital Single Market

In 2015 the European Commission adopted the Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy, aiming to establish common European data protection rules, reform telecoms rules and modernise copyright rules, among other goals. The authors in this Forum, including Andrea Renda, J. Scott Marcus and Barbara Engels, review the progress made thus far, exploring regulatory responses to issues such as data privacy, online consumer protection, artificial intelligence and big data. What degree of harmonisation of rules in the 28 member states is necessary? Can small businesses take advantage of the potential benefits of big data, or are these benefits limited to large companies that can afford to invest in the proper analysis of the data? What lessons can the EU draw from experiences in other parts of the world? Perhaps most importantly, how can the DSM be optimised to support European innovation and economic growth?

Additional Highlights from the Current Issue

Macron a Game Changer for Europe?

Daniel Gros assesses the renewed optimism in Europe following Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election. Does Macron’s triumph signal the beginning of a period of European revival, or are the problems facing the EU too large and too numerous? Will there be a new era of Franco-German leadership? How important to the rest of the EU is the success of Macron’s domestic reform programme?

America’s Health Care War

After seven years of bitter Republican complaints about Obamacare, they finally had the opportunity to fulfil their promises to repeal and replace the law. This made their failure to do so all the more embarrassing. Jacob S. Hacker details what went wrong for Republicans and why their loss was America’s gain. He also looks ahead to the next evolution of the American health care system.

ANFA – National Money Creation as an Existential Threat to the Currency Union?

The recent publication of the previously secret Agreement on Net Financial Assets (ANFA) directed the public’s attention to the possibility that national central banks could create money through purchases of securities on their own account. Arne Hansen and Dirk Meyer provide an overview of the legal foundations for ANFA and explore the interests, risks and consequences for the euro area crisis countries and the currency union as a whole.

 

From the Next Issue

Forum: Migration and Integration in the EU

featuring articles by Alessandra Venturini, Pieter Bevelander, Lars Ludolph & more

The Political Limits of Economic Integration

by Phedon A. Nicolaides & Joanna Hornik

Brexit Dynamics: British and EU27 Challenges after the EU Referendum

by Paul Welfens & David Hanrahan

 

Quote of the Month

Rather than an innovation gap, the EU suffers from a diffusion gap, which is echoed in a number of widening divides: between cities and rural areas; between leading and lagging countries; between frontier, laggard, and even ‘zombie’ firms; between richer and poorer individuals; and between technology-savvy and less e-skilled end users and businesses.

from Andrea Renda’s Forum article Will the DSM Strategy Spur Innovation?

 

About Intereconomics – Review of European Economic Policy

Intereconomics is jointly produced by ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). The journal appears bimonthly and features papers by economists that deal with economic and social policy issues and trends in Europe or affecting Europe. To submit a paper for publication, please visit the Submissions section of our website for relevant information.

Intereconomics is published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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