Ivo Maes

Ivo Maes is a professor and the Robert Triffin chair at the Université Catholique de Louvain and at the ICHEC Brussels Management School. He is also a non-resident fellow at Bruegel. He was previously a senior adviser at the economics and research department of the National Bank of Belgium. In 2003, he was a member of the Committee for Institutional Reform of the West African Monetary Union.

Articles by Ivo Maes

Governance

Book notes: Unexpected revolutionaries: how central banks made and unmade economic orthodoxy, by Manuela Moschella

This book delves into the political science perspective of central banking since the 1970s but lacks nuance and depth

07 Apr 2025

Economic theory

Book notes: The monetarists: the making of the Chicago monetary tradition, 1927-1960, by George S Tavlas

A fascinating, scholarly and sympathetic account of the Chicago monetary tradition

18 Sep 2024

Reserves

Book notes: Bucking the buck: US financial sanctions and the international backlash against the dollar, by Daniel McDowell

A timely and well-documented book about the weaponisation of the US dollar

05 Jul 2024

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