European Union

09/19/2017

Europe needs a Financing Union for Investment and Innovation

Morgan Després, Édouard Vidon

Deeper financial integration through capital markets can support European growth and resilience to shocks by spurring cross-border equity investment. Completing the banking union requires parallel progress in credit risk reduction and risk-sharing, while keeping systemic risks in check. These priorities should be seen as part of the same agenda and are all the more critical in a post-Brexit EU.

Updated on 06/13/2018 10:55.
04/13/2017

Brexit negotiations: hawks, doves, and chickens

By Edouard Vidon

Game theory provides examples and a few valuable lessons for negotiators, whether hawks or doves, such as the risk of “falling off a cliff” in the “game of chicken”. Investment bank strategists and academics have already started toying with such tools to analyse the Brexit “game”. Surely the negotiators’ war rooms have been paying attention.

Brexit negotiations: the clock is ticking Photo: T. Depenbusch (via wikicommons)
Updated on 06/13/2018 11:01.