The impact on redistribution of the ECB’s monetary policy
By Jérôme Creel and Mehdi El Herradi A few weeks before Christine Lagarde assumes the presidency of the European Central Bank (ECB), it may be useful […]
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The euro is 20 – time to grow up
By Jérôme Creel and Francesco Saraceno [1] At age twenty, the euro has gone through a difficult adolescence. The success of the euro has not been aided […]
What can be deduced from the figures on inflation?
By Eric Heyer In May, inflation in the euro area moved closer to the ECB target. The sharp rise in inflation, from 1.2% to 1.9% […]
Trump’s budget policy: Mortgaging the future?
By Christophe Blot While the momentum for growth has lost steam in some countries – Germany, France and Japan in particular – GDP in the […]
The ECB on neutral ground?
By Christophe Blot and Jérôme Creel The involvement of the European Central Bank (ECB) in the fiscal management of the euro area member states has […]
What factors are behind the recent rise in long-term interest rates?
By Christophe Blot, Jérôme Creel, Paul Hubert and Fabien Labondance Since the onset of the financial crisis, long-term sovereign interest rates in the euro zone have […]
Where are we at in the euro zone credit cycle?
By Christophe Blot and Paul Hubert In December 2016, the European Central Bank announced the continuation of its Quantitative Easing (QE) policy until December 2017. […]
How negative can interest rates get?
By Christophe Blot and Paul Hubert On 11 June 2014, the European Central Bank decided to set a negative rate on deposit facilities and on […]
The ECB is extending its QE programme but mixes up its communications
By Paul Hubert On Thursday, March 10, after the meeting of its Governing Council, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced a series of additional measures […]
Give Recovery a Chance
By iAGS team, under the direction of Xavier Timbeau The ongoing recovery of the Euro Area (EA) economy is too slow to achieve a prompt […]