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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
Blog post
29 November 2018
Machine learning and economics
Machine learning (ML), together with artificial intelligence (AI), is a hot topic. Economists have been looking into machine learning applications not
Blog post
29 November 2018
Youth unemployment: Common problem, different solutions?
Youth unemployment is a major obstacle to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s human and economic development. In this blog post, Uri Dadu
Policy brief
28 November 2018
Sustainable investing: How to do it
Sustainable investment is gaining momentum in Europe, but its current proposed taxonomy might hinder innovation in the field. In this Policy Contribut
Blog post
27 November 2018
Preliminary observations on the European Commission’s Android decision
Following the announcement that Alphabet (Google) will appeal the European Commission's ruling on the competition case against its Android mobile oper
Policy brief
26 November 2018
Assessing the European Union’s North Africa trade agreements
In this Policy Contribution, the authors provide an economic assessment of the trade agreements between the EU and North Africa. They argue that the c
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
Blog post
20 November 2018
Euro-area sovereign bond holdings: An update on the impact of quantitative easing
Since the European Central Bank’s announcement of its quantitative easing (QE) programme in January 2015, national central banks have been buying gove
Blog post
19 November 2018
Could Italian private wealth compensate for flight of foreign bond-holders?
Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini is "convinced" that Italians can help out their government, in the face of a widening yield spread betwee
Blog post
19 November 2018
The Brexit withdrawal agreement
On November 14th the UK government cabinet approved the draft text of the withdrawal agreement, the deal reached between EU and UK negotiators. The de
Blog post
15 November 2018
What the 2018 EBA stress tests (don’t) tell you about Italy
The results of the latest European Banking Authority stress tests were eagerly awaited for their results on the four biggest Italian banks. At first s
Policy brief
15 November 2018
The G20 turns ten: what’s past is prologue
This Policy Contribution assesses the performance of the G20 since its first summit held in November 2008 to understand what could lie ahead for the i
Blog post
14 November 2018
Is this time different? Reflections on recent emerging-market turbulence
Since the beginning of 2018, currencies of two large emerging-market economies – Argentina and Turkey – suffered from substantial depreciation. Other