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 Paris office of the CEPR at 187, Boulevard Saint-Germain | |
| Formation | 26 May 1983; 42 years ago (1983-05-26)[1] |
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| Founder | Richard Portes |
| Headquarters | London,United Kingdom |
| Fields | Economics |
Official language | English |
President | Beatrice Weder di Mauro |
Key people | Esther (Tessa) Ogden (CEO) Richard Baldwin (VoxEU Editor-in-Chief) |
| Website | cepr |
TheCentre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is an independent, non-partisan, pan-European non-profit organisation. It aims to enhance the quality of policy decisions through providing policy-relevant research, based soundly in economic scholarship, to policymakers, the private sector, and civil society.[2]
CEPR was founded in 1983 byRichard Portes.[3][4] Economics professorRichard Baldwin served as president from 2014 to 2018, and was Editor-in-Chief as of early 2021.[5] Economics professor and businesswomanBeatrice Weder di Mauro became president in 2018.[6]
In October 2021, CEPR opened its newParis office, intended to become its head office.[7] Weder di Mauro commented that CEPR "is an organisation with a strong European identity and, with Brexit, we felt the need to set ourselves up on the continent."[8] The office is hosted bySciences Po, which is one of CEPR’s Paris Founding Partners together withAXA, theBank of France, theFrench Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, theFrench Ministry of Economy and Finance, and theÎle-de-France Region.[9]
CEPR appoints Research Fellows and Affiliates who remain in their home institutions such as universities, research institutes, central bank research departments, and international organisations.[10] As of early 2022, CEPR’s network included over 1,700 of the world's top economists from over 330 institutions in 30 countries.[11] The results of the research conducted by the Centre's network are disseminated through a variety of publications, public meetings, workshops and conferences. It is headquartered inLondon.[12][13]
CEPR organises a number of events throughout the year. These can range from open conferences to which anyone can attend, to CEPR members-only meetings.[14]
CEPR is registered as a charity (No. 287287) in theUnited Kingdom. It is financially supported by a large number ofcentral banks, private financial institutions, and international organisations.[15] These institutional sponsors receive special benefits by obtaining different levels of membership.[16]
CEPR disseminates its research in the first instance through the CEPR Discussion Paper Series, in which it publishes 870 papers annually. As of November 2018, the CEPR series is ranked fifth among all economics working paper series and journals in terms of total downloads, according to theRePEc database.[17]
VoxEU.org is a web publication set up by CEPR to promote "research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading economists".
It was set up in June 2007 in conjunction with a consortium of other European sites, including the Italian siteLaVoce[18] (which provided inspiration for the idea and help from the start), the French siteTelos,[19] the Spanish siteSociedad Abierta, the GermanÖkonomenstimme[20] and the Dutch siteMeJudice.[21] VoxEU's stated aim is to "enrich the economic policy debate in Europe and beyond."
VoxEU promotes research-based policy analysis and commentary by "leading economists." The intended audience includes economists in governments, international organisations, academia, and the private sector, as well as journalists specializing in economics, finance, and business.
The main editors are European economists and economic journalists, including:Richard Baldwin,Carol Propper,Tito Boeri, Juanjo Dolado, Romesh Vaitilingam, andCharles Wyplosz.
According to its own statement VoxEU receives about a half million page views per month.[22]
Clive Crook in his blog discusses favorably Vox's contribution to policy debates.[23]
Every year since 1999, CEPR has published theGeneva Report on the World Economy as a joint project with the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB), an independent foundation associated with theGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies inGeneva. In addition, CEPR and ICMB occasionally publish special reports as part of the Geneva Report series.[24]
