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Walking the Tightrope: The Trade-Offs Between Financial and Price Stability
Jordi Schröder Bosch | 17 April 2023
Christine Lagarde has recently argued that the price stability and financial stability objectives of the European Central Bank (ECB) are not at odds with one another. While in tranquil times this asse …
NEW REPORT: Shedding light on a Blind Spot: the Accountability of the Eurosystem National Central Banks
Positive Money Europe | 5 April 2023
Eurosystem national central banks have very different procedures when it comes to reporting to political authorities, and are less accountable than the European Central Bank, a new research paper comm …
How a digital euro will prevent future banking crisis
Positive Money Europe | 4 April 2023
The recent banking crisis shows that the financial system is broken. A digital euro designed for the people, not for private companies, could be the beginning of a more stable and safer public banking …
Is the ECB’s corporate portfolio really getting greener?
Stanislas Jourdan | 3 April 2023
The Corporate Sector Purchase Programme was supposed to boost the real economy, but it ended up supporting the fossil fuel industry
Profits, not wages, should be the ECB’s main concern
Jordi Schröder Bosch | 22 March 2023
With inflation reaching its highest levels since the euro was introduced, ECB officials have been wary of a wage-price spiral. Yet it’s profits, not wages, that are the real culprits in today’s inflat …