"ECFIN New Publication" Newsletter Issues

Investment Challenges in Energy, Transport & Digital Markets: A Forward Looking Perspective (29/11/2016)

This report looks at the specific investment challenges facing the energy, transport and digital market sectors. The report is published together with two reports from the European Investment Bank.

EU Consumers’ Quantitative Inflation Perceptions and Expectations: An Evaluation (25/11/2016)

A report on quantitative inflation perceptions and expectations of consumers in the euro area and the EU.

Ex Post Evaluation of the Economic Adjustment Programme. Portugal, 2011-2014 (21/11/2016)

This report assesses Portugal’s 2011-2014 Economic adjustment programme in order to draw lessons for the future.

The Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure. Rationale, Process, Application: A Compendium (16/11/2016)

This Compendium takes stock of the implementation of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) five years since its introduction.

European Economic Forecast – Autumn 2016 (09/11/2016)

Economic growth in Europe is expected to continue at a moderate pace, as recent labour market gains and rising private consumption are being counterbalanced by a number of hindrances to growth and the weakening of supportive factors.

Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in a Rapidly Changing World (26/10/2016)

This paper focuses primarily on the importance and quality of economic growth for poverty reduction in the developing world.

EU Candidate & Potential Candidate Countries' Economic Quarterly (CCEQ) – 3rd Quarter 2016 (14/10/2016)

An overview of economic developments in candidate and pre-candidate countries.

Joint Report on Health Care and Long-Term Care Systems & Fiscal Sustainability (07/10/2016)

This report, prepared by the staff of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and the Economic Policy Committee (Ageing Working Group), presents policy challenges for health care and long term care, and options on how to contain spending pressures through efficiency gains, in order to ensure fiscally sustainable access to good quality services for all.

European Business Cycle Indicators – 3rd Quarter 2016 (07/10/2016)

This EBCI's special topic analyses whether the financial crisis has caused a shift in respondents' reference standards when answering survey questions.

Cost-Containment Policies in Hospital Expenditure in the European Union (27/09/2016)

This paper summarises documented evidence on a number of policies to contain costs in the hospital sector.