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New Opportunities 2021: The ECB and bringing financial markets down to earth

The Covid-19 pandemic has capped a decade of economic crises that the European Central Bank has had to deal with. The bank’s tools to keep countries’ finances afloat and investors’ confidence solid have been unprecedented. Weaning them off low interest rates, financial injections and high debt will be its next big challenge – but it has the power to make the transition smooth.

The ECB’s wobbly ‘bridge function’
After the financial crisis of 2008, EU leaders decided that the European Central Bank needed supervisory powers over banks. Initially, the project successfully helped rein in bad practices and clean up banks' balance sheets. However, if the ECB's supervisory and monetary policy-setting functions are not kept separate, it could lead ...


GIS Dossier: Beyond the pandemic – the economics
Six months into 2020, the effects of the Covid-19 crisis on the global economy are becoming clear. Not only has it disrupted supply chains and upended long-standing industry alliances, it has reinforced governments’ spendthrift habits and central banks’ tendency to print money. GIS experts have offered their analysis and predictions ...


Relevance beyond the crisis: The future of coronomics
The coronavirus outbreak has led to a new trend – “coronomics.” The word is most often used to describe the difficult economic reality that will arise in a post-pandemic world. Concerns over this state of affairs have caused many economists to adopt an approach meant to be more humane than ...


The ‘Big Rethink’ in macroeconomics
The 2008 financial crisis threw the discipline of macroeconomics into turmoil. Since then, some of the world’s most respected economists have regularly gathered to theorize about the lessons learned and how to address fiscal and monetary policy going forward. Yet a troubling trend is growing stronger: basing macroeconomics on ideological, ...

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