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Friday 15 November 2013

WEEKEND READING: 16-17 NOVEMBER


  1. The new EU Directive on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications has arrived! It's going to be Bolognia all over again!
  2. The EU announces that member states are now allowed to channel a great deal more State Aid to their film industries than previously - including funding the 'modernisation' of individual cinemas. Apparently, Europe produces more films than India, and that's somehow a good thing. 
  3. The World Bank's study tracking the size of the high-seas piracy sector off the horn of Africa is now out, and makes for fantastic reading. Also note the Creative Commons 3.0 Unported licence. A bit more detail here.
  4. I almost never post these but ACCA's Global Economic Conditions Survey, of which I am the editor, came out a few days ago and is very interesting. 
  5. The IMF's mea culpa team has kind of over-done it here - a study with a very limited sample up to 09 finds that fiscal multipliers increase during rapid consolidations. Still, interesting for its approach to measuring the speed of fiscal consolidation. 
  6. More from the IMF - how sovereign wealth funds work.
  7. Post-bailout Ireland's industrial production exploded last month, but Europe's production fell by 0.5%
  8. A recent paper explores the effect of cigarette taxes on consumption in Greece, and the potential benefits of smokers cutting down. 
  9. Venezuela slides further down towards shithole status.

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