Newsletter November 2019
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A Primer on Developing European Public Goods
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Annual Conference Presentations, Video and Photographs Now Available

Europe’s Competitiveness and the Rise of China was examined at EconPol Europe’s annual conference on the 7 and 8 November 2019, with a keynote speech by Carlos San Basilio (Secretary General of the Treasury and International Financing, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Business) on the deepening of the EMU. Watch the video of the speech here.

The EU and China was the focus of Daniel Gros’s keynote (Director, CEPS & EconPol Europe), which can be seen here. A panel discussion chaired by Maithreyi Seetharaman (FORTUNE) and including Koen Jonkers (Deputy Head, Joint Research Centre‘s Knowledge for Finance, Innovation and Growth Unit, European Commission), Sherry Madera (Global Head of Industry and Government Affairs, Refinitiv), Luisa Santos (Director of International Relations, Business Europe) and Xu Zhengbing (Counsellor for Economic and Commercial Affairs, Chinese Mission to the EU) is available to view here.

You can see photographs of both days here. Presentations are available to download on the conference webpage.
ECONPOL POLICY REPORTS

A Primer on Developing European Public Goods

The EU has mostly been defined as a provider of economic integration amongst participating member states. Its cornerstones have been the removal of obstacles to cross-border flows of goods, services, labour and capital, and the development of common policies that ensure the smooth functioning of an integrated market, be it for trade, competition, infrastructures or consumer protection, to name the main ones only. Even the euro was initially conceived as a natural complement to the internal market and as a trigger for further integration. This policy report from Clemens Fuest (ifo Institute, LMU, EconPol) and Jean Pisani-Ferry (EUI, Bruegel) discusses the case for enhanced provision of European public goods and makes a number of proposals for concrete steps and initiatives.

EconPol Policy Report 16
ECONPOL WORKING PAPERS

What Drives Chinese Overseas M&A Investment? Evidence from Micro Data

In recent years Chinese foreign acquisitions have increased significantly, with Chinese investors are more likely to acquire larger firms, firms with lower levels of profitability and higher debt. This EconPol working paper from Clemens Fuest (EconPol Europe, ifo Institute, LMU), Felix Hugger (LMU), Samina Sultan (LMU) and Jing Xing (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) shows investors don’t seem to pay more for target firms with given characteristics, questioning the view that they are subsidized to outbid other investors. Policy initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative and Made in China 2025 influence state-owned but not private Chinese investors. After acquisition by a Chinese company, targets exhibit lower growth in capital productivity, but a higher growth of employee compensation.

EconPol Working Paper 33

The Social Costs of Side Trading

This working paper examines resource allocation under private information when the planner cannot prevent bilateral side trading between consumers and firms. Adverse selection and side trading severely restrict feasible trades: each marginal quantity must be fairly priced given the consumer types who purchase it. Authors Andrea Attar, Thomas Mariotti and François Salanié (EconPol Europe and Toulouse School of Economics) discuss the relevance of the results for insurance and financial markets.

EconPol Working Paper 34
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