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It is time to include housing prices into the ECB’s inflation index
The ECB’s primary mission is to maintain consumer price stability, but while doing so it omits an important item of household consumption: the cost of housing. It is now time to fix this strange exception which induces biases in the design of the ECB’s monetary policy.
Green QE is about more than buying climate-friendly bonds
The recent declarations of new European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde on the possible role of her institution in the fight against climate change have revived pushbacks from central bankers and financial commentators against “green quantitative easing”. However, the critics have often misrepresented what campaigners actually want.
Christine Lagarde meets with Positive Money Europe
On Monday 2 December 2019, a group of NGOs including Positive Money Europe met with the new President of the European to hand over a letter calling on the ECB to accelerate its efforts in the fight against climate change.
What can the Eurogroup do to promote gender diversity at the ECB?
EU Treaties are no obstacle for the Eurogroup to take decisive actions in favour of gender diversity in the European Central Bank.
ECB must act now on climate change, civil society leaders tell Lagarde in open letter
More than 160 academics and civil society representatives signed an open letter urging the new president of the European Central Bank to take concrete action in the fight against climate change.
Students demand real-world education on banking and money creation
A global network of economics students involving 27 universities across 11 countries is calling on their universities to teach them the truth about banks. They are now supported by 57 economists and organisations who signed an open letter.