Stinglhamber, P.; Nieuwenhuyze, Ch. Van; Zachary, M.-D. - In: Economic Review (2011) II, pp. 77-91
For the greater part of 2010, short-term and long-term interest rates in Belgium were at exceptionally low levels. Nominal interest rates reached historic lows ; in real terms, only the low point of 1974 remained unequalled. The yield curve was in turn relatively steep. In the first place, the...