Category Archives: Economics

Central banker with a twist

This horrible work “macroprudential”

From @MacroPru tweet and yb video

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Central banks – the new normal

Central banking and monetary policy – which will be the new normal? is a one day conference co-organized by SUERF/BAFFI Carefin. Right on time BIS has published research discussing negativity of negative interest rates. https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1603e.htm Financial Times discusses the matter … Continue reading

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The challenges of central bank divergence

“The US is years ahead of the EU in recovery and so at a different stage of the monetary policy cycle”- writes Financial Times http://on.ft.com/1TyzuYo

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Big Bad Wolf of Financial markets – financial innovations

The more I read about financial market and reasons of the current crisis – the more amazed I am and the more I like this job. Such an entertainment! Currently I read a CEPR report from 2009 about market regulation … Continue reading

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What central banks will do this year

Bloomberg’s forecast: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-24/what-28-central-banks-will-do-this-year

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“Euro is like hotel California…

…you can check out any time but you can never leave” says a new Greek minister of finance, professor of economics at the University of Athens. Read more at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-27/greece-s-new-finance-minister-says-euro-is-like-hotel-california

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Some personal public relations

Me on central banks on the first webpage of the University of Turku (English version) http://www.utu.fi/en/Pages/home.aspx and more here: http://www.utu.fi/en/news/articles/Pages/in-banks-we-trust.aspx Soon I’ll write a report from the recent Meeting of the European Central Punk that took place in Zurich, 3-6April, … Continue reading

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Kenen on the euro | vox

Kenen on the euro | vox. One of the world’s most influential international economists, Peter Kenen, passed this week. This column highlights the key role his insights played in the construction of the Eurozone and the problems that arose when … Continue reading

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ECB Ambition Fulfilled for Mersch as Bowles’s Gender Fight Rages, writes Bloomberg.com

“Yves Mersch is about to fulfil an ambition denied to the Luxembourg central bank governor for months in a fight over gender politics as he fills the vacant slot on the European Central Bank’s Executive Board. After the longest battle … Continue reading

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ECB Executive Board STILL incomplete because Marsch is not a woman

The drama of the incomplete ECB Executive Board continues. The European Parliament strongly promotes a candidate with female features. A European Parliament committee opposed the appointment of Luxembourg’s Yves Mersch to the European Central Bank’s Executive Board because of unhappiness … Continue reading

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