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Centre for Analysis of Risk & Regulation
  • Black, Julia, Woll, Cornelia, Hobolt, Sara, Wratil, Christopher, Moloney, Niamh, Schuster, Edmund-Philipp, Hübner, Danuta, Fankhauser, Samuel, Carvalho, Maria & Iammarino, Simona et al (2017). LSE’s experts explain what awaits Britain and Europe ahead of Brexit.
    • European Institute
  • Begg, Iain (2025). Rethinking the UK fiscal framework: lessons from elsewhere. National Institute Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1017/nie.2025.10080 picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (28 November 2025) Budget 2025: financial tinkering, not economic transformation. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (4 September 2025) Who would want to be Rachel Reeves this autumn? LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (1 September 2025) Spending more on defence without damaging social spending - time for a coalition of the borrowing? LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (11 November 2024) How Rachel Reeves should have changed the fiscal rules. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (22 July 2024) Rachel Reeves should rethink the fiscal rules. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain, Cicak, Daniel (2024). The EU’s future prosperity what role for the fiscal framework? CESifo Forum, 25(3), 32-36.
  • Begg, Iain (2023). EU finances in search of a new approach. Intereconomics, 58(6), 295 - 299. https://doi.org/10.2478/ie-2023-0061 picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain, Le Cacheux, Jacques (2023). Options for a stronger and more agile EU budget. Policy Department for Budgetary Affairs, Directorate-General for Internal Policies, European Union. https://doi.org/10.2861/537788 picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2023). The EU’s increasingly complex finances a ticking bomb? EconPol Forum, 24(4), 16 - 20. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2023). Completing a genuine economic and monetary union. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108963503
  • Begg, Iain (20 August 2021) The European Central Bank’s revised monetary policy strategy. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (28 December 2020) Was Godot worth the wait? The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement explained. LSE Brexit. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain, Unwin, Brian (28 September 2020) European investment bank: the UK will miss it when it is gone. LSE Brexit. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2020). Responses to the COVID-19 economic crisis: challenges for global governance. Global Perspectives, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.16700
  • Begg, Iain (8 July 2020) The Eurogroup no longer jobs for the boys? LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (28 May 2020) Next generation EU (NGE): the commission’s Covid-19 recovery package. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (26 May 2020) The Franco-German proposal for a €500bn recovery fund. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (24 April 2020) Covid-19: the struggle to agree an EU response. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain, Qian, Jun (23 April 2020) How different will this time be? Assessing the prospects for economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Abels, Christoph M., Anheier, Helmut K., Begg, Iain, Featherstone, Kevin (2020). Enhancing Europe’s power: a rejoinder. Global Policy, 11(3), 395-399. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12812 picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (15 April 2020) Who pays for the war on Covid-19? LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (4 April 2020) The economic consequences of Covid-19. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (3 March 2020) Deals, deals, deals who needs them? LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Abels, Christoph, Anheier, Helmut. K, Begg, Iain, Featherstone, Kevin (2020). Enhancing Europe’s global power: a scenario exercise with eight proposals. Global Policy, 11(1), 128 - 142. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12792 picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (28 February 2020) Is this a return to no deal? Probably not - but there will be losers. LSE Brexit. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2019). No longer “the economy stupid”: how muddled economics contributed to a chaotic Brexit. The Economists' Voice, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/ev-2019-0030 picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (22 November 2018) Italy rues the rules. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain, Featherstone, Kevin (20 November 2018) A breakdown of EU norms and rules risks opening Pandora’s box. LSE Brexit. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain, Featherstone, Kevin (27 October 2018) From ‘Vincolo Esterno’ to ‘Nemico Esterno’: the disturbing new demonisation of the EU. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). The UK is heading towards a frightening constitutional crisis over Brexit. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). What if Britain rejoined the EU? Breaking up may be less hard than making up. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). A paler shade of grey? It is hard to see how any in-between version of Brexit can prevail. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). A soft Brexit is a compromise that would please no one. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). "Read my lips": no Brexit dividend. picture_as_pdf
  • Bachtler, John, Begg, Iain (2018). Beyond Brexit: reshaping policies for regional development in Europe. Papers in Regional Science, 97(1), 151-170. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12351
  • Begg, Iain (2017). Making sense of the costs and benefits of Brexit: challenges for economists. Atlantic Economic Journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-017-9550-x
  • Bachtler, John, Begg, Iain (2017). Cohesion policy after Brexit: the economic, social and institutional challenges. Journal of Social Policy, 46(4), 745-763. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279417000514
  • Begg, Iain (2017). Fiscal rules and the scope for risk sharing. Intereconomics, 52(3), 131-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-017-0661-z
  • Begg, Iain (2017). The Commission’s White Paper on the Future of Europe – a case of what might have been….
  • Begg, Iain (2017). Britain’s got bills – but will it pay? Settling the UK’s EU budget obligations.
  • Begg, Iain (2017). Fiscal and other rules in EU economic governance: helpful, largely irrelevant or unenforceable? National Institute Economic Review, 239(1), R3-R13. https://doi.org/10.1177/002795011723900110
  • Black, Julia, Woll, Cornelia, Hobolt, Sara, Wratil, Christopher, Moloney, Niamh, Schuster, Edmund-Philipp, Hübner, Danuta, Fankhauser, Samuel, Carvalho, Maria & Iammarino, Simona et al (2017). LSE’s experts explain what awaits Britain and Europe ahead of Brexit.
  • Begg, Iain (2016). By engaging with the media academics can enjoy benefits to their research.
  • Begg, Iain (2016). Despite strong GDP data, it is difficult to ascertain what effect Brexit will really have on the economy.
  • Begg, Iain (2016). Theresa May’s timeline for Brexit: canny tactics or Brexishambles?
  • Bachtler, John, Begg, Iain, Charles, David, Polverari, Laura (2016). EU cohesion policy in practice what does it achieve? Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Begg, Iain (2016). Brexit: why, what next and how? CESifo Forum, 17(1), 30-36. https://doi.org/11132016002007
  • Begg, Iain (2016). The EU budget and UK contribution. National Institute Economic Review, 236(1), 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1177/002795011623600106
  • Begg, Iain (2016). The economics of Brexit: which side should we believe?
  • Begg, Iain (2016). The welfare state in Europe: still worth having?
  • Begg, Iain (2016). Why both sides of the UK’s debate are misleading the public on EU budget contributions.
  • Begg, Iain (2016). Lies, damned lies and yet more misleading statistics on Europe.
  • Begg, Iain (2015). No movement in Brussels: Cameron needs to come up with another way to cut EU migration.
  • Begg, Iain (2015). ‘OK, David’ – No 10 will be quietly satisfied with Tusk’s initial response to Cameron’s renegotiation demands.
  • Begg, Iain (2015). Britain’s risky euro-out strategy.
  • Begg, Iain (2015). Deepening EU economic governance: the next steps.
  • Begg, Iain (2015). What might Brexit look like? No one really knows.
  • Begg, Iain (2015). Lies, damned lies and statistics on the UK’s EU membership.
  • Begg, Iain, Bongardt, Annette, Nicolaïdis, Kalypso, Torres, Francisco (2015). EMU and sustainable integration. Journal of European Integration, 37(7), 803-816. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2015.1079375
  • Evans, Jocelyn, Evans, Mary, Arzheimer, Kai, Begg, Iain, Vasilopoulou, Sofia, Halikiopoulou, Daphne, Hagemann, Sara, Shaw, Eric, Cianetti, Licia & Rodríguez-Teruel, Juan et al (2014). European Parliament election results – our experts react.
  • Begg, Iain (2013). The Cypriot banking crisis shows that Europeans have yet to work out the answer to the question, ‘who pays?’.
  • Begg, Iain (2013). It is entirely possible that Britain could leave the European Union within the next decade.
  • Begg, Iain (2013). Are better defined rules enough? An assessment of the post-crisis reforms of the governance of EMU. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 19(1), 49-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/1024258912469346
  • Begg, Iain (2012). The UK will gain very little from blocking a deal on the EU budget.
  • Begg, Iain (2012). If Greece does not do enough to convince its creditors to maintain the flow of funding, it will be in default: but this does not necessarily mean a Euro exit.
  • Begg, Iain (2012). A well designed Europe-wide financial transactions tax could be a powerful source of revenue for the EU budget.
  • Begg, Iain (2012). Recent measures may have signalled the beginning of the end of the Eurozone crisis. But the transformation of EU economic governance is still far from complete.
  • Begg, Iain (2012). Banking union: inevitable, but profoundly challenging? CESifo Forum, 13(4), 15-20.
  • Begg, Iain (2012). The EU’s response to the global financial crisis and sovereign debt crisis. Asia Europe Journal, 9(2-4), 107-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-012-0304-8
  • Begg, Iain, Erhel, Christine, Mortensen, Jørgen (2010). Medium-term employment challenges. (CEPS special reports). The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).
  • Begg, Iain (2010). Cohesion or confusion: a policy searching for objectives. Journal of European Integration, 32(1), 77-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036330903375115
  • Begg, Iain (2010). Economic and social governance in the making: EU governance in flux. Journal of European Integration, 32(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036330903510273
  • Begg, Iain (2009). Reconciling Europe’s competitiveness with sustainable development. In Liddle, Roger (Ed.), After the Crisis: a New Socio-Economic Settlement for the Eu (pp. 151-161). Policy Network.
  • Begg, Iain (2009). Regulation and supervision of financial intermediaries in the EU: the aftermath of the financial crisis. Journal of Common Market Studies, 47(5), 1107-1128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2009.02037.x
  • Begg, Iain (2009). Monetary policy strategies. In Dyson, Kenneth, Marcussen, Martin (Eds.), Central Banks in the Age of the Euro: Europeanization, Convergence, and Power . Oxford University Press.
  • Begg, Iain (2009). Fiscal federalism, subsidiarity and the EU budget review. Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier.
  • Begg, Iain (2009). Funding the EU budget: a case for inaction? Public Finance and Management, 9(4), 506-535.
  • Begg, Iain (2009). Paving the way for a strategy of sustainable development. In Rodrigues, Maria João (Ed.), Europe, Globalization and the Lisbon Agenda (pp. 283-293). Edward Elgar.
  • Begg, Iain, Enderlein, Henrik, Le Cacheux, Jacques, Mrak, Mojmir (2008). Financing of the European Union budget. Directorate General for Budget, European Commission.
  • Begg, Iain, Draxler, Juraj, Mortensen, Jørgen (2008). Is social Europe fit for globalisation?: a study of the social impact of globalisation in the European Union. (CEPS special reports). The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).
  • Begg, Iain (2008). Economic governance in an enlarged euro area. (European Economy. Economic Papers 311). European Commission Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs.
  • Begg, Iain (2008). Is there a convincing rationale for the Lisbon Strategy? Journal of Common Market Studies, 46(2), 427-435. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00784.x
  • Begg, Iain (2008). La Suède à la recherche de son modèle social. La Revue de L’ires, 58, 145-165.
  • Begg, Iain, Lefresne, Florence (2008). Le marché du travail britannique: mythe et réalité du modèle néo-libéral. La Revue de L’ires, 58(3), 111-143.
  • Begg, Iain (2008). The Lisbon strategy post-2010. In Losch, M., Burger, C., Farré Capedevila, V. (Eds.), Die Zukunft Der Wirtschaftspolitik Der Eu . Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit.
  • Begg, Iain (2008). Rethinking the EU’s finances: the 2008/9 budget review. In Ludlow, Peter (Ed.), Setting EU Priorities 2008 . The European Strategy Forum.
  • Begg, Iain (2008). Structural policy and economic convergence. CESifo Forum, 9(1), 3-9.
  • Begg, Iain (2008). Subsidiarity in regional policy. In Gelauff, George, Grilo, Isabel, Lejour, Arjan (Eds.), Subsidiarity and Economic Reform in Europe (pp. 291-310). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
  • Begg, Iain (2007). Lisbon II, two years on: an assessment of the Partnership for Growth and Jobs. (CEPS special reports). The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).
  • Begg, Iain (2007). The 2008/2009 review of the EU budget: real or cosmetic? CESifo Forum, 8(1), 45-50.
  • Begg, Iain (2007). Contested meanings of transparency in central banking. Comparative European Politics, 5(1), 36-52. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cep.6110100
  • Begg, Iain (2007). Is stability necessary for growth? In Magnusson, Lars, Stråth, Bo (Eds.), European Solidarities: Tensions and Contentions of a Concept (pp. 55-72). Verlag Peter Lang.
  • Begg, Iain (2007). Rethinking the EU’s finances: the 2008/9 budget review. In Ludlow, Peter (Ed.), Setting EU Priorities 2007 . The European Strategy Forum.
  • Begg, Iain (2006). Lisbon relaunched: what has changed? Is it working better? (CEPS special reports). The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).
  • Begg, Iain (2006). Real convergence and EMU enlargement: the time dimension of fit with the Euro area. In Dyson, Kenneth (Ed.), Enlarging the Euro Area: External Empowerment and Domestic Transformation in East Central Europe . Oxford University Press.
  • Begg, Iain (2006). Economic policy and institutional transparency: the ECB. In Oxelheim, Lars (Ed.), Corporate and Institutional Transparency for Economic Growth in Europe (pp. 47-70). Elsevier (Firm).
  • Begg, Iain (2006). Is full participation in the EMU likely to favour or slow real convergence? In Balcerowicz, Leszek, Fischer, Stanley (Eds.), Living Standards and the Wealth of Nations : Successes and Failures in Real Convergence (pp. 365-391). MIT Press.
  • Begg, I., Mayes, D., Hodson, D., Maher, I. (2006). Adjusting to EMU. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Begg, Iain (2005). Funding the European Union. (Federal Trust Research Reports). Federal Trust for Education and Research.
  • Begg, Iain, Schelkle, Waltraud (2004). Can fiscal policy co-ordination be made to work effectively? Journal of Common Market Studies, 42(5), 1047-1059. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0021-9886.2004.539_4.x
  • Begg, Iain, Schelkle, Waltraud (2004). The pact is dead: long live the pact. National Institute Economic Review, 189, 86-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/002795010418900109
  • Begg, Iain (2004). Future fiscal arrangements of the European Union. Common Market Law Review, 41(3), 775-794.
  • Begg, Iain, Hodson, Dermot, Maher, Imelda (2003). Economic policy coordination in the European Union. National Institute Economic Review, 183(1), 66-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/0027950103183001462
  • Begg, Iain (2003). Complementing EMU: rethinking cohesion policy. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 19(1), 161-179. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/19.1.161
  • Ardy, Brian, Begg, Iain, Schelkle, Waltraud, Torres, Francisco (2002). How will EMU affect cohesion? Intereconomics, 37(6), 300-314. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02930319
  • Begg, Iain, Canova, Fabio, de Grauwe, Paul, Fatas, Antonio, Lane, Philip R. (2002). Surviving the slowdown. Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain).
    • Gender Studies
  • Evans, Jocelyn, Evans, Mary, Arzheimer, Kai, Begg, Iain, Vasilopoulou, Sofia, Halikiopoulou, Daphne, Hagemann, Sara, Shaw, Eric, Cianetti, Licia & Rodríguez-Teruel, Juan et al (2014). European Parliament election results – our experts react.
    • Geography and Environment
  • Black, Julia, Woll, Cornelia, Hobolt, Sara, Wratil, Christopher, Moloney, Niamh, Schuster, Edmund-Philipp, Hübner, Danuta, Fankhauser, Samuel, Carvalho, Maria & Iammarino, Simona et al (2017). LSE’s experts explain what awaits Britain and Europe ahead of Brexit.
    • Government
  • Begg, Iain (2018). The UK is heading towards a frightening constitutional crisis over Brexit. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). What if Britain rejoined the EU? Breaking up may be less hard than making up. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). A paler shade of grey? It is hard to see how any in-between version of Brexit can prevail. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). A soft Brexit is a compromise that would please no one. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). "Read my lips": no Brexit dividend. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2017). Reflecting on how to run €MU more effectively.
  • Black, Julia, Woll, Cornelia, Hobolt, Sara, Wratil, Christopher, Moloney, Niamh, Schuster, Edmund-Philipp, Hübner, Danuta, Fankhauser, Samuel, Carvalho, Maria & Iammarino, Simona et al (2017). LSE’s experts explain what awaits Britain and Europe ahead of Brexit.
    • Grantham Research Institute
  • Black, Julia, Woll, Cornelia, Hobolt, Sara, Wratil, Christopher, Moloney, Niamh, Schuster, Edmund-Philipp, Hübner, Danuta, Fankhauser, Samuel, Carvalho, Maria & Iammarino, Simona et al (2017). LSE’s experts explain what awaits Britain and Europe ahead of Brexit.
    • International Relations
  • Begg, Iain (2017). Reflecting on how to run €MU more effectively.
    • LSE
  • Begg, Iain, Unwin, Brian (28 September 2020) European investment bank: the UK will miss it when it is gone. LSE Brexit. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (28 May 2020) Next generation EU (NGE): the commission’s Covid-19 recovery package. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (22 November 2018) Italy rues the rules. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain, Featherstone, Kevin (20 November 2018) A breakdown of EU norms and rules risks opening Pandora’s box. LSE Brexit. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain, Featherstone, Kevin (27 October 2018) From ‘Vincolo Esterno’ to ‘Nemico Esterno’: the disturbing new demonisation of the EU. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). Read my lips: no such thing as a Brexit dividend. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). Rethinking the governance of economic and monetary union: should rules continue to rule?
  • Begg, Iain (20 January 2018) The Brexit-sized hole in the future EU budget. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). After a period of resilience, things appear to be turning sour for the UK economy.
  • Begg, Iain (2017). Expect a backlash if the £50bn offer doesn't move negotiations on.
  • Begg, Iain (2017). The productivity gap adds to the concerns about how Brexit can be navigated.
  • Begg, Iain (20 October 2017) The gaffe that keeps on taking: how to break the deadlock over Britain's EU divorce bill. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2017). Juncker's State of the Union signals that interest in Brexit is declining across the EU.
  • Begg, Iain (2017). May in Florence: renaissance or resistance?
  • Begg, Iain (2015). Push or jump? Why the UK could be facing a ‘Brexpulsion’ rather than a ‘Brexit’.
  • Begg, Iain (2015). What does the Five Presidents’ report mean for the future of the euro?
  • Begg, Iain (2013). Margaret Thatcher maintained a difficult relationship with Europe, but she was far from a figurehead for Euroscepticism.
    • LSE Human Rights
  • Black, Julia, Woll, Cornelia, Hobolt, Sara, Wratil, Christopher, Moloney, Niamh, Schuster, Edmund-Philipp, Hübner, Danuta, Fankhauser, Samuel, Carvalho, Maria & Iammarino, Simona et al (2017). LSE’s experts explain what awaits Britain and Europe ahead of Brexit.
    • LSE London
  • Black, Julia, Woll, Cornelia, Hobolt, Sara, Wratil, Christopher, Moloney, Niamh, Schuster, Edmund-Philipp, Hübner, Danuta, Fankhauser, Samuel, Carvalho, Maria & Iammarino, Simona et al (2017). LSE’s experts explain what awaits Britain and Europe ahead of Brexit.
    • Law School
  • Black, Julia, Woll, Cornelia, Hobolt, Sara, Wratil, Christopher, Moloney, Niamh, Schuster, Edmund-Philipp, Hübner, Danuta, Fankhauser, Samuel, Carvalho, Maria & Iammarino, Simona et al (2017). LSE’s experts explain what awaits Britain and Europe ahead of Brexit.
    • School of Public Policy
  • Begg, Iain (2018). The UK is heading towards a frightening constitutional crisis over Brexit. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). What if Britain rejoined the EU? Breaking up may be less hard than making up. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). A paler shade of grey? It is hard to see how any in-between version of Brexit can prevail. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). A soft Brexit is a compromise that would please no one. picture_as_pdf
  • Begg, Iain (2018). "Read my lips": no Brexit dividend. picture_as_pdf