Georg Fischer

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Filauro, S. & Fischer, G. (2026, April). EU-wide inequality and its contrast during COVID-policy consideration (IEP@BU Policy Brief No. 58). Bocconi University. https://iep.unibocconi.eu/publications/policy-briefs/policy-brief-n58-eu-wide-inequality-and-its-contrast-during-covid-policy
• Fischer, G., Strauss, R., & Spasova, S. (2026, February). A European unemployment reinsurance scheme revisited (OSE Research Paper No. 71). https://ose.be/en/publications/civil-society-and-the-european-semester/
• Fischer, G. (2025). Social Europe: Recent developments; the new European Commission and the future of Social Europe. In Astrov V. (Ed.) WIIW Monthly Report, 2025/09. https://wiiw.ac.at/monthly-report-no-9-2025-p-7402.html
• Fischer, G. (2024, June). Les avancées de l’Europe sociale: Synthèse – Progress in Social Europe (Série Européenne). Terra Nova. https://tnova.fr/democratie/politique-institutions/progress-in-social-europe/
• Fischer G. and Strauss R. (2021). Introduction: An overview of issues and trends. Europe’s income, wealth, consumption, and inequality (pp. 1–39). Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europes-income-wealth-consumption-and-inequality-9780197545706?cc=at&lang=en&
• Fischer, G. and Strauss, R. (2021). Social policies and the ecological transformation. In F. Balate and M. J. Rodrigues (Eds.), Our European future: Charting a progressive course in the world (pp. 40–46). Publishing Partnership. https://feps-europe.eu/publication/our-european-future/
• Vandenbroucke, F., Andor L., Beetsma R., Burgoon B., Fischer G., Kuhn T., Luigjes C. and Nicoli F. (2020), The European Commission’s SURE initiative and euro area unemployment re-insurance. In Bénassy-Quéré, A. and Weder di Mauro B. (Eds.), Europe in the Time of Covid-19, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/europe-time-covid-19