De Grauwe, Paul - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 88 (2019) 2, pp. 51-54
The ECB has announced that when government and corporate bonds come to maturity in the context of its QE-program, new … opportunities" for the ECB. It could replace the old bonds with new "environmental bonds", i. e. bonds that have been issued to … finance environmental projects. In doing so, the ECB would not create new money. Given the existential nature of the …