Jeromin Zettelmeyer @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025RIP Stan Fischer, a wonderful mentor, thinker, leader. Incorruptible, wise, and influential until the end. Unforgettable to all who had the honour of interacting with him. 2100
Reposted by Jeromin ZettelmeyerAdrien Fabre @adrien-fabre.bsky.social · 17/03/2025In this excellent Comment in Nature, @patrickbolton.bsky.social, O. Edenhofer, A. Kleinnijenhuis, J. Rockström & @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social argue that it's in HICs' interest that they provide 0.3% of GDP in grants, conditional on decarbonization in the Global South. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comWhy coalitions of wealthy nations should fund others to decarbonizeFailure to agree on global grants to help low- and middle-income countries to achieve net-zero emissions cannot be the end of the story. An urgent solution is needed. 0105
Jeromin Zettelmeyer @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I published a short note on the implications of a proposed constitutional amendment in Germany, which includes an 11% of GDP fund for infrastructure and permission to fund most military spending outside the debt brake’s maximum deficit of 0.35% of GDP (Thread, 1/9): www.bruegel.org/analysis/can...bruegel.orgCan Germany afford to take most defence spending out of its debt brake?Higher German defence spending would be fiscally sustainable, but would require cuts elsewhere and would breach EU fiscal rules 34318
Jeromin Zettelmeyer @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Thread (1/11). In the last few days, Bruegel published has two pieces on the new European Commission’s policy platform: a policy brief explaining the Commission’s ideas on growth and security and asking whether they make sense in the new Trump world ...(www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...)bruegel.orgNot yet Trump-proof: an evaluation of the European Commission’s emerging policy platformThis policy brief evaluates the capacity of the EU’s economic strategy to address structural problems and whether policy needs to change under Trump 192
Jeromin Zettelmeyer @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Can I ask anyone that is following me: are you still posting on X? If not, why not; and if yes, why yes? Thanks!! 440
Jeromin Zettelmeyer @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024In an important new paper, picked up by the FT (www.ft.com/content/6019...) Patrick Bolton and Bruegel fellow Alissa Kleinnijenhuis make the economic case for a New Common Quantified Goal of Climate Finance based on the economic self-interest of advanced countriesft.comCOP29: The selfish case for climate financeNew academic paper argues climate-focused grant finance is in rich countries’ economic interest 2113