Sooner or later, the ECB must accept that monetary financing in support of deficit spending is a necessity not just for mitigating the coronavirus crisis, but also for averting a downward deflationary cycle that could pull the eurozone apart.

In this paper we address the issue of how transmission uncertainty could affect the choice between a federal monetary policy based on national data and one on aggregated data. We find that the uncertainty about the transmission process increases the need to take into account information about...

The belief that the ECB follows the US Federal Reserve in setting its policy is so entrenched with market participants and commentators that the search for empirical support would seem to be a trivial task. However, this is not the case. We find that the ECB is indeed often influenced by the...

At the height of the European sovereign debt crisis, the European Central Bank decided to purchase distressed European government bonds. Even worse, and more importantly, the ECB is providing direct support of several hundred billions of euros to troubled banks via its normal monetary policy...

Die Regierungen der Eurozone haben sich am 27. Oktober 2011 auf ein Paket zur Eindämmung der EU-Schuldenkrise geeinigt. Der europäische Rettungsschirm soll durch Hebelwirkung ein größeres Ausleihevolumen erhalten, die Banken ihre Eigenkapitalquote erhöhen und einen Forderungsverzicht...