Podcast
Africa's battle with COVID-19
How can we ensure a worldwide balanced and inclusive recovery from the Covid pandemic?
Upcoming Event
This event, jointly organised with ISPI, as the National Coordinator and Chair of the T20 Italy, is part of the T20 Spring Roundtables and it will focus on strategies for a swift and sustainable economic recovery for Europe.
Podcast
How can we ensure a worldwide balanced and inclusive recovery from the Covid pandemic?
Blog Post
COVID-19 has complicated inflation measurement. Policymakers need to take this into account and should look at alternative measures of inflation to understand what is actually happening in the economy.
Podcast
Structural factors are putting downward pressure on rates: is it time for macroeconomic policy to play second fiddle in managing demand?
Policy Contribution
Interest rates have been on a long-term decline, associated with declining productivity growth. To tackle this, the priorities are to reduce market concentration and, in Europe, change the financing model.
Podcast
Summary of the macro outlook based on Commission forecasts and analysis of the global picture.
Opinion
The spine of the letter represents the fall in activity at the start of the pandemic. Then there is a split, which leads to the two ‘arms’ that capture the different directions taken by economic activity in different sectors.
Podcast
“We are not going to lead our society to a low-carbon economy by continuing to finance the status quo. “
Blog Post
The European Central Bank portfolio is skewed towards the brown economy, reflecting a bias in the market. Can and should the bank deviate from the market allocation?
Working Paper
This paper assesses COVID-19 credit-support programmes in five of the largest European economies, and examines how countries have dealt with trade-offs raised by the programmes.
Opinion
Ever since the 2008 financial crisis, central bankers have been busy developing new policy instruments to fight fires and ward off emerging threats. Nonetheless, many secretly dreamed of returning to the good old days of cautious conservatism (with financial stability taken seriously).
Opinion
Ce qui est malsain, avec la proposition d’annuler la dette, c’est le déni de réalité consistant à affirmer que l’Etat peut effacer une partie de ses engagements sans que cela ne coûte à personne.