# Publications

A green fiscal pact: climate investment in times of budget consolidation

Paper prepared for the informal ECOFIN meeting of EU finance ministers and central bank governors in Ljubljana on 10/11 September 2021. Paper is available here...

Understanding (the lack of) German public investment

An array of data suggests that there is a general lack of investment by all branches of the German government, despite running budget surpluses for several years. This blog post plots the progression of the public invest...

Measuring Europe’s investment problem

The President of the European Commission is worried about the investment situation in Europe and has taken the initiative to propose a €300 billion investment plan to the December European Council meeting. Under the lead...