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King calls for radical shake-up to escape ‘low-growth trap’
Central bank models fail to appreciate demand-side secular stagnation
Tackling ‘dead-end’ monetary policy
Shift to lower inflation targets would help central banks escape forever-loose monetary policy, writes former IMF chief Jacques de Larosière
Exchange rate shocks gaining importance for eurozone inflation – research
Core inflation less influenced by exogenous factors, Bank of Spain research paper says
Strong global forces pushing some central banks to buy gold – analysts
Poland’s move and others pushed by negative rates, political uncertainty and changing monetary system, experts say
ECB prepares for ‘big bang’ move to new market infrastructure
Eurozone's payments, instant payments and securities settlement systems will merge by end of 2021
30 years of central banking
Central banks face credibility tests on a number of fronts
Denmark cuts main rate, mirroring ECB’s move
Scandinavian central bank has pegged the krone to the euro since the single currency’s launch
Economists publish ‘crash course’ on euro crisis
Framework is designed to help students grasp the macro-financial roots of recent crises
Central banks face loss of independence – Central Banking survey
Cyber risks and lax supervision are biggest threats to financial stability
Mark Carney on joined-up policy-making, forward guidance and Brexit
BoE governor rules out negative rates and change to inflation targets, offers update on too-big-to-fail; and more
ECB to assess Croatian banks in euro membership prep
Croatia could join the eurozone by 2024
IMF calls for more progress on Serbian currency
Central bank managed recent currency instability well, IMF staff say
BoI paper presents new method for eurozone inflation forecasts
Model works well to predict inflation using data from bloc’s four largest economies, authors say
Croatian central bank moves towards “close co-operation” with ECB
Draft law forms part of process for joining European single currency
The twilight of banking supervision
Supervision of banks in Europe has deteriorated
Euro internationalisation pushes ECB to rethink policy approach
Wider euro use forces policy-makers to consider ever more global factors in monetary policy analysis
Draghi becomes latest target of Trump’s ire
Dovish comments at ECB conference draw accusation of manipulation from US president
EU must improve capital markets to boost euro as global reserve – ECB
ECB cannot “unequivocally” say euro becoming global reserve would help monetary policy – Cœuré
Martin Feldstein, 1939–2019
The US economist was hugely influential in shaping both policy and economic research
Lagarde and Draghi stress Eastern Europe’s exposure to trade disputes
Improved institutions required to develop resilience to external shocks
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