
What is the future of the European Union?
After Brexit and other recent anti-Europe sentiment rearing its head in national elections around Europe, is there reason to be optimistic about the Union?IMD Professor Arturo Bris looks at the issue in the latest IMD Viewpoints video.

Arturo Bris is Professor of Finance at IMD and directs the IMD World Competitiveness Center.
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IMD produces a yearly Smart City Index offering a balanced focus on economic and technological aspects of smart cities on the one hand, and “humane dimensions” of smart cities (quality of life, environment, and inclusiveness) on the other. In this...
On 12 March 2025, new and expanded tariffs on aluminium, steel, and downstream “derivative” products come into force. This briefing shows that derivative products alone represented $151 billion of imports in 2024, with 27 foreign economies each ha...
Trade conflict is costly to all parties. Canadian and Mexican trade retaliation can deny tariff-related wins for American workers. Blunt retaliation could go so far as to eliminate all the take-home pay gains in 40 U.S. states and make whatever ga...
This paper presents a compact and intuitive framework that consolidates, simplifies, and extends results on the links between technology, trade, and labour market outcomes. It makes three main contributions. First, it presents closed-form solution...
Consumer-voters and the processing industry are the sure losers of the trade war against China that Trump will carry on with renewed energy.
Brookfield’s Catalytic Transition Fund is a case study in how the financial industry can spearhead sustainable development. Brookfield Asset Management announced an initial closing of $2.4 billion for the Catalytic Transition Fund, marking a signi...
IMD World Competitiveness Center Report, 8 April 2025
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Global Trade Alert, Zeitgeist Series Briefing no. 57, 6 March 2025
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3 March 2025, Global Trade Alert Report, cBrief 5: These Are Your People
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in Journal of International Economics 23 February 2025, ePub before print, 104065, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2025.104065
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