Policy Output

Policy Briefs

This section is dedicated to CompNet-related policy briefs which feature short papers on competitiveness related fields with and without CompNet data. This section is aimed at encouraging policy-related debate based on sound data analysis.

Policy Brief No 14 - COVID-19 government support and productivity: Micro-based cross-country evidence

Policy Brief No 13 - COVID impacts across Mediterranean E.U.: Hints from Harmonized Surveys on Business Activity

Policy Brief No 12 - Covid and Productivity one year after - What did surprise us?

Policy Brief No 11 - The viral effects of foreign trade and supply networks in the Euro area

Policy Brief No 10 - Back to the future: The forward-looking consequences of COVID-19 across EU regions

Policy Brief No 9 - EU firms participation in GVC: Bliss or curse after COVID?

Policy Brief No 8 - Centralisation of wage bargaining and firms’ adjustment to the Great Recession - a micro-based analysis

Policy Brief No 7 - A micro-based look at the evolution of investment over the great recession

Policy Brief No 6 - Global Value Chains reshape our policy thinking

Policy Brief No 5 - Measuring institutional competitiveness in Europe

Policy Brief No 4 - Mapping competitive pressure between China and EU countries

Policy Brief No 2 - The signatures of Euro-area imbalances. Export performance and the composition of ULC Growth.

Policy Brief No 1 - Going beyond labour costs

Reports

CompNet Productivity Report, 2025

Flagship Firm Productivity Report, 2020

Productivity and competitiveness: where does France stand in the Euro zone?

VoxEu Columns

VoxEU, Talking about Competitiveness in Europe: Productivity not Protection, 2023

VoxEu, Increasing market concentration in Europe is more likely to be a sign of strength than a cause for concern, 2020

VoxEu, Solving Europe's Productivity Puzzle, 2020

VoxEu, The COVID crisis and productivity growth, 2020

VoxEu, Granular inputs to policy and research: The latest vintage of the CompNet dataset, 2019

VoxEu, You need an 'extra moment' to assess the impact of the exchange rate, 2017