Showing posts with label Euro area monetary policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euro area monetary policy. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2020

3/7/20: ECB Jumping the Proverbial Shark?

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ECB's money-printing press has been running overtime these weeks. So let's put the Euro area central banks' monetary policy sh...
Friday, June 12, 2020

12/6/20: Summary of the Eurosystem Response Measures to COVID19

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Great and tight summary of the Eurosystem monetary policies deployed in response to COVID19 pandemic:  https://blocnotesdeleco.banque-fran...
Monday, May 21, 2018

21/5/28: Trouble is brewing in the Euro paradise

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My article for the Sunday Business Post  on the continued risk/VUCA from politics of populism to the Euro area reforms and stability:  htt...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

15/5/18: Beware of the Myth of Europe's Renaissance

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My article for last Sunday's Business Post  on why the Euro area growth Renaissance is more of a fizzle than a sizzle, and what Irelan...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

21/11/17: ECB loads up on pre-Christmas sales of junk

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Holger Zschaepitz @Schuldensuehner posted earlier today the latest data on ECB’s balance sheet. Despite focusing its attention on unwindin...
Friday, September 29, 2017

29/9/17: Eurocoin: Eurozone growth is still on the upside trend

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The latest data from Eurocoin - an early growth indicator published by Banca d’Italia and CEPR - shows robust continued growth dynamics ...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

20/7/17: Euro Area's Great non-Deleveraging

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A neat data summary for the European 'real economic debt' dynamics since 2006: In the nutshell, the Euro area recovery: Gov...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

15/4/17: Thick Mud of Inflationary Expectations

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The fortunes of U.S. and euro area inflation expectations are changing and changing fast. I recently wrote about the need for taking a mor...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

28/2/16: ECB in March: A Thaw or a Spring Blizzard?

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My comment on what to expect from the ECB in March for Expresso   http://en.calameo.com/books/004629676f86bc6c6796a . As usual, full ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

9/2/16: Currency Devaluation and Small Countries: Some Warning Shots for Ireland

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In recent years, and especially since the start of the ECB QE programmes, euro depreciation vis-a-vis other key currencies, namely the USD...
Thursday, December 3, 2015

3/12/15: 85 v 52: Of Duration of Risk Mispricing

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One of the causes of the most recent crisis in the euro area is frequently linked to the superficially low interest rates set by the ECB d...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

26/11/15: Counting Down to ECB's Big Surprise...

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Counting the week to December 3rd ECB meeting, I have to ask one simple question: does anyone over in Frankfurt has a clue what they are d...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

3/9/15: ECB Decides to Not Decide, but Reserves a Right to Decide More

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ECB decision to hold rates unchanged at today's meeting was hardly of any surprise. This means there is little news in terms of actual...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

18/9/2014: Quite a disappointing TLTRO round 1

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So ECB's first tranche of TLTROs allotted at EUR82.6 billion - which is disappointing to say the least. Announcement is here:  http://w...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

31/7/2014: Deflationary Trap: Eurocoin Signals Slowing Euro Area Growth in July

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July Eurocoin - higher frequency gauge of economic activity in the euro area published by CEPR and Banca d'Italia - is out. Headline n...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

7/5/2014: Eurocoin Leading Indicator: April 2014

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The latest Eurocoin leading growth indicator for the euro area is at 0.39 in April, statistically unchanged on 0.38 in March. Q1 2014 fo...
Monday, April 7, 2014

7/4/2014: Eurocoin March 2014: Q1 Growth Estimate at 1.4% y/y

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I have not updated stats for Eurocoin leading growth indicator for euro area economy for some time now, so here's the latest. In...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

5/9/2013: ECB Boldly Goes Nowhere... again

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The longer it lasts, the uglier it gets... ECB stays put (predictably) on rates today is adding 57th month that the policy rates are deviat...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

16/5/2013: On That Impossible Monetary Policy Dilemma

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At last, the IMF has published something beefy on the extraordinary (or so-called 'unconventional') monetary policy instruments un...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

26/4/2013: ECB's policy mismatch in 6 graphs

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For those interested in the monetary drivers of the current euro area crisis, here's an interesting new paper from CESifo (WP 4178, Ma...