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VoxEU.org is one year old
Vox was launched one year ago. Over 550 economists have written 440 columns for Vox in its first year, including some of the profession’s academic greats.
Vox readership has tripled since August 2007. Currently, Vox receives over 10,000 unique visitors a
day from almost a half million distinct IP addresses. The average number of page views is about
35,000 per day (or 7.3 million in total). Vox celebrates its first birthday with a series of great
columns on monetary policy and on international trade; and new features, including audio interviews
with Vox authors, a conference and workshop listings service, and a weekly newsletter.
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Winters appointed Chief Economist at DFID
L Alan Winters, a Research Fellow and Co-Director of the CEPR International Trade Programme from 1987 to 1994, has been appointed Chief Economist at the UK Department for International Development.
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Politics, Economics and Global Governance: The European Dimensions
is a collaborative project, funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme for research. The project website is currently under construction.
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"SCIFI-GLOW - SCience, Innovation, FIrms and markets in a GLObalized World" - new project launched in June 2008
SCIFI-GLOW is a collaborative project, funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme for research. The project website is currently under construction.
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The Competitiveness of European Firms in the Euro Age (EFIM2008)
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, University of Bologna for Bruegel, and Thierry Mayer, University of Paris I for CEPR, coordinate EFIM.
The key question this projects aims at resolving is Does the Euro make European firms fitter for global competition?.
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CEPR Programme Director awarded 2008 Fundación Banco Herrero Prize
Diego Puga, co-director of CEPR's International Trade and Regional Economics Programme, has been awarded the 2008 Fundación Banco Herrero Prize. The Prize is given annually to a young Spanish researcher (resident in Spain or abroad) under the age of 40 for his or her outstanding contributions to the fields of economics, business or social sciences.
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The CEPR/ESI 12th Annual Conference on 'The Evolving Financial
System and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy'
The Annual Conference will take place on 25/26 September 2008 in Basel and will be co-organised with, and hosted by, the Bank for International Settlements.
The topic of the 12th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be 'The Evolving Financial System and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy'
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The Need for an Emergency Bank Debt Insurance Mechanism
In a new CEPR Policy Insight, Javier Suarez proposes the creation of an Emergency Bank Debt Insurance Mechanism (EBDIM) as an alternative to the massive lending of last resort (LLR) operations undertaken by central banks since the start of the subprime crisis.
CEPR Policy Insight No. 19
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CEPR Research Fellow awarded Carlo Alberto Medal
CEPR Research Fellow Enrico Moretti has been awarded the 2008 Carlo Alberto Medal. The medal is awarded to an outstanding Italian economist under 40.
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Lessons from the 2007 Financial Crisis
What caused the current North Atlantic financial crisis, how can it be fixed and how can the likelihood of future crises be reduced? CEPR Policy Insight No. 18 addresses these issues at length.
CEPR Policy Insight No. 18
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Introducing a Global Database on Migrant Stocks
Migration matters and will matter more as the lopsidedness of the world age-profile works its way through into labour and product markets. Surprisingly, there has been no global dataset on migration stocks until now. CEPR Policy Insight No. 17 introduces a new database maintained at the University of Sussex.
CEPR Policy Insight No. 17
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Seppo Honkapohja appointed to the Bank of Finland's Board
CEPR Research Fellow Seppo Honkapohja has been appointed
as a Member of the Board of the Bank of Finland from January 2008.
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Europe's superstar firms
In a new CEPR Policy Insight, Researchers Thierry Mayer and Gianmarco
I.P. Ottaviano reveal new facts that are essential for future
policy-making to foster competitiveness among European firms in the
international market and for the ongoing process of trade
liberalisation.
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