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The agreed reform of EU fiscal rules
A short-sighted compromise
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Philipp Heimberger
Cutting corporate taxes is the wrong answer to Germany's growth problems
Germany's finance minister exaggerates positive economic effects of corporate tax cuts
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Philipp Heimberger

November 2022

Challenging myths about Italy’s economy and macro policies
"Surprising" facts
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Philipp Heimberger

August 2022

How the ECB is trying to prevent a new Euro crisis
Monetary policy-makers are using PEPP reinvestments to buy Italian government bonds while reducing the portfolio of German bonds
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Philipp Heimberger

November 2021

Do higher public debt levels undermine growth?
I did an interview with the French magazine Atlantico about my recent study on this question
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Philipp Heimberger

August 2021

Corporate tax cuts won't boost growth
Exaggerations in the German election campaign
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Philipp Heimberger

May 2021

German inflation worries and distorted memories of history
Misremembering Weimar promotes inflation concerns today
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Philipp Heimberger

April 2021

Keynes, output gap nonsense and the EU’s fiscal rules
On the power of economic models in memory of Keynes
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Philipp Heimberger
The political fight over a global minimum corporate tax rate
Empirical evidence suggests that tax competition has indeed contributed to falling corporate taxes
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Philipp Heimberger
My interview with La Repubblica about the Campaign Against Italy Nonsense
Public discourse about Italy is very distorted, and we should thrive to change it
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Philipp Heimberger
Draghi and austerity champion Italy
Why Italy is a cautionary tale for other eurozone countries and why we need to avoid repeating austerity mistakes after Corona
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Philipp Heimberger

March 2021

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