The ECB – or how to become less conventional
By Jérôme Creel and Paul Hubert The gloomy economic situation in the euro zone and the deflationary risks it is facing are leading the members of […]
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The Barnier proposal on banking regulation: whence the wrath?
By Jean-Paul Pollin (Université d’Orléans) and Jean-Luc Gaffard This time the evidence is there and it’s irrefutable: the reaction of the French “authorities” to the […]
Regulating the financial activities of Europe’s banks: a fourth pillar for the banking union
By Céline Antonin, Henri Sterdyniak and Vincent Touzé At the impetus of EU Commissioner Michel Barnier, on 29 January 2014 the European Commission proposed new […]
Does financial instability really undermine economic performance?
By Jérôme Creel, Paul Hubert and Fabien Labondance What relationship can be established between the degree to which an economy is financialized (understood as the […]
Europe’s banks: sustaining the renewal of confidence
By Céline Antonin and Vincent Touzé Since August 2012, bank shares in the stock markets have risen and their volatility has reduced, attesting to a return […]
Shocks, unemployment and adjustment – the limits of the European union
By Christophe Blot In an article published in 2013 in Open Economies Review [1], C. A. E. Goodhart and D. J. Lee compare the mechanisms […]
Monetary policy and property booms: dealing with the heterogeneity of the euro zone
By Christophe Blot and Fabien Labondance The transmission of monetary policy to economic activity and inflation takes place through various channels whose role and importance […]
Cyprus: Aphrodite to the rescue?
By Céline Antonin and Sandrine Levasseur For two weeks Cyprus sent tremors through the European Union. If the banking crisis that the island is going […]
Cyprus: a well-conceived plan, a country in ruins…
By Anne-Laure Delatte and Henri Sterdyniak The plan that has just been adopted sounds the death knell for the banking haven in Cyprus and implements […]
The Cypri-hot case!
By Jérôme Creel In advance of a more in-depth study of the crisis in Cyprus and its impact on the euro zone, here are a […]