Past Event
The role of the ECB in stabilizing sovereign debt markets
What are the main lessons of ECB interventions in specific sovereign debt markets?
Past Event
What are the main lessons of ECB interventions in specific sovereign debt markets?
Past Event
How would a digital Euro impact the financial system?
Past Event
At this event we will discuss what sources of equity finance can help Europe emerge from the recession.
Past Event
Invitation only event to discuss Europe’s Capital Markets Union.
Policy Contribution
With the European Union for the first time taking on debt to help finance the economic recovery from the coronavirus, new resources are needed to fund the EU budget. Various ideas have been floated – including a digital tax and a financial transactions tax – but the most appropriate new resource would be revenues from the EU emissions trading system, which could provide enough funding to repay the EU's coronavirus borrowing.
Policy Contribution
The euro never challenged the US dollar, and its international status declined with the euro crisis. Faced with a US administration willing to use its hegemonic currency to extend its domestic policies beyond its borders, Europe is reflecting on how to promote it currency on the global stage to ensure its autonomy. But promoting a more prominent role for the euro is difficult and involves far-reaching changes to the fabric of the monetary union.
Podcast
COVID-19 has triggered a severe recession and policymakers in European Union countries are providing generous, largely indiscriminate, support to companies. As the recession gets deeper, a more comprehensive strategy is needed. This should be based on four principles: viability of supported entities, fairness, achieving societal goals, and giving society a share in future profits. The effort should be structured around equity and recovery funds with borrowing at EU level.
Opinion
It’s time for the EU to make quick and indispensable progress in forming a capital markets union.
Past Event
Bruegel is delighted to welcome the governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, Gabriel Makhlouf. He will deliver a keynote address about how adequate the European toolbox is to tackle financial stability risks in a low rate environment. Following his speech, a panel of experts will further discuss the topic.
Past Event
At this online event we will record an episode of the Sound of Economics, Bruegel's podcast series. In this episode, we discuss the implications of the coronavirus crisis on financial stability and credit availability.
Blog Post
The banking system is critical to society and requires attention and support. In doing so, however, tough love is preferable to complacency.
Opinion
Lagarde needs a different bazooka in responding to a natural disaster like COVID-19.