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To tackle our global challenges, we need stronger supra-national decision-making and a more united Europe. Will the real EU please stand up?

👉 Strengthening Cross-Policy Collaboration
Trade, industrial, competition, public, social, and cohesion policies must work hand-in-hand to support EU decision-making. Without a coherent industrial policy, we see subsidy shopping and externalities that global powers can exploit.

This misalignment can weaken EU unity, making it harder to achieve collective goals. We are working on this with Alberto Palazzolo.

Together with Niccolò Consonni, we’re exploring these questions to prepare for future shocks—be it a water crisis or beyond.

👉 Addressing Regional Disparities
Policies like trade, industrial, or social policy often create winners and losers—even within the same country.

👉 Developing a Toolbox for Strategic Goods
While initiatives like those by DG GROW at the European Commission are an important step in the right direction,
we lack a robust framework to:
Identify strategic goods.
Evaluate dependencies.
Conduct stress tests for resilience.

Today, we need to redefine our "strategic goods" as steel and coal are no longer central to value chains.

👉 Avoiding unilateral dependence
True integration means joint dependence, not the one-sided reliance we saw with Russian gas.

How can we balance national security with the benefits of open trade?
💡 Some thoughts:
👉 This is not a new question
After WWII, the EU’s predecessor linked security and trade through the European Community of Steel and Coal.

2️⃣ The Need for a Strong and United EU
A cohesive EU is essential to remain a key player globally. However, tensions between local political developments and supra-national decision-making create challenges we must navigate.

Here are some key insights I took away:
1️⃣ The Role of Trust in Trade
Trust plays a crucial role in trade, but it’s not something our standard economic models typically address. Building trust must be part of the conversation moving forward.

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ok thanks - that is also at the basis of my setup. I do create random data along the same dimensions of the real data that allows to run the full code pipeline for reproduction. This allows to run codes on fake data if proprietary, helps for code debugging, and can run on smaller data dimensions.

to be fair, Stata mentions this in the documentation. But having conceptual differences in the value of . across Stata commands is indeed not helpful. Similar issue with collapse by the way.

I’d be happy to hear more about your one push button replication techniques 😬