Podcast
12 March 2019
Director's Cut: The case for a legislative remedy for recessions
Bruegel's Maria Demertzis welcomes Yale Law School professor Yair Listokin to this Director's Cut of 'The Sound of Economics', to discuss how law migh
European central bank
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Blog post
21 February 2019
Greening monetary policy: An alternative to the ECB’s market-neutral approach
The ECB’s market-neutral approach to monetary policy undermines the general aim of the EU to achieve a low-carbon economy. An alternative tilting appr
Podcast
21 February 2019
Deep Focus: A greener monetary policy approach for the ECB
Bruegel fellow Dirk Schoenmaker walks Sean Gibson and 'The Sound of Economics' listeners through his latest working paper, focusing on how to make mon
Blog post
06 February 2019
Whose (fiscal) debt is it anyway?
The authors map how much fiscal debt is in the hands of domestic and foreign holders in the euro area. While the market for debt was much more interna
Blog post
05 February 2019
The higher yield on Italian government securities is becoming a burden for the real economy
Francesco Papadia and Inês Gonçalves Raposo have recently written on Italian fiscal policy and the increase in the spread between Italian (BTP) and Ge
Blog post
14 January 2019
What 2019 could bring: A look inside the crystal ball
Economic performance prospects in Europe, the US and Asia in 2019. We start off by reviewing commentaries and predictions about the euro zone, which m
Policy brief
18 December 2018
The euro as an international currency
Is a more important international role for the euro worth pursuing? What measures would achieve this result, if it is worth pursuing?
Blog post
13 December 2018
Does the Eurogroup's reform of the ESM toolkit represent real progress?
The deal reached on euro-zone reform at the December 4th Eurogroup is not ground-breaking. However, it contains a number of incremental but potentiall
Policy brief
13 December 2018
Forecast errors and monetary policy normalisation in the euro area
What did we learn from the recent monetary policy normalisation experiences of Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom? Zsolt Darvas consider
Podcast
12 December 2018
Deep Focus: Consequences of European Central Bank forecasting errors
Bruegel senior scholar Zsolt Darvas speaks about his review of systematic errors in ECB forecasting, in another instalment of the Deep Focus podcast o
Blog post
07 December 2018
Providing funding in resolution: Unfinished business even after Eurogroup agreement on EMU reform
The recent Eurogroup agreement on euro-area reform foresees a greater role for the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) as a backstop to the banking uni
Blog post
06 December 2018
ECB’s huge forecasting errors undermine credibility of current forecasts
In the past five years ECB forecasts have proven to be systematically incorrect: core inflation remained broadly stable at 1% despite the stubbornly p
Blog post
03 December 2018
The international role of the euro
The authors assess whether the euro area should pursue a greater international role for the euro, as outlined by European Commission president Jean-Cl
Blog post
03 December 2018
Green central banking
A few weeks ago, Silvia Merler discussed the rise of “ethical investing”. A related question emerging from the discussion is whether central banks sho
Opinion piece
30 November 2018
What the "gilets jaunes" movement tells us about environment and climate policies
Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann write on the climate governance lesson European governments should learn from the "gilets jaunes" experience.
Policy brief
22 November 2018
A monetary policy framework for the European Central Bank to deal with uncertainty
In this Policy Contribution prepared for the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) as an input to the Monetary Dialo