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Monday, June 11, 2007

New European portal: VoxEU

Good news for those on this side of the pond - about two dozen leading European economists have decided to set up their own 'policy portal' group blog: VoxEU.org The organisers explain:

VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (www.CEPR.org) in conjunction with a consortium of national sites, including the Italian site LaVoce (which provided inspiration for the idea and help from the start, www.LaVoce.info), the French site Telos (www.telos-eu.com), and the Spanish site Sociedad Abierta.

Vox aims to promote research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading scholars. The intended audience is economists in governments, international organisations, academia and the private sector as well as journalists specializing in economics, finance and business.

Although it has only been up-and-running for a few weeks, there are already a dozen or so new posts and about two dozen older pieces (often translations).  Here's a sample:

* Should Europe care about global imbalances? by Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

* Migration and welfare, byTito Boeri

* The US-Europe income gap: Is it for real? Alberto Alesina, Guido Tabellini

* The fuss about foreign exchange reserves accumulation, by Charles Wyplosz

* Is enlargement unlimited? by Richard Baldwin

This is a very welcome initiative. Thanks CEPR!

Monday, June 11, 2007 at 08:00 PM in Economy - Europe, Weblogs |

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Richard Baldwin

Hi, Vox is not a group blog. We welcome submissions from all professional; an Editorial Board decides what to post.

Posted by: Richard Baldwin | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 09:47 AM

Lafayette
RB: Vox is not a group blog.

Of course not. Why should academics open themselves to the winds of objective criticism?

Posted by: Lafayette | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 04:11 PM

Laurent GUERBY

"The US-Europe income gap: Is it for real?" is indeed a real joke :).

Posted by: Laurent GUERBY | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 11:07 PM

Lafayette

Strange, I never saw a poor person in America laughing at that joke. Have you, LG?

Posted by: Lafayette | Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 08:31 PM

Arthur Eckart

The Europe-Africa income gap is still the biggest joke in the Old World.

Posted by: Arthur Eckart | Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 09:17 PM

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