The International Economics and Euro Area Department focuses on the macroeconomic analysis and monitoring of the world economy and global economic issues (trade, demography, technology, geography).
It poses a special focus on the euro area economy, mainly to lend support to monetary policy decision-making, and Latin America.
To perform these tasks, the department performs research focusing on international spillovers from monetary, fiscal and macroprudential policies, global growth medium-term determinants (including the role of institutions), international and regional integration (from the trade and finance sides), sources of global vulnerabilities (including economic imbalances and political determinants), sovereign crises, and European and global governance.
