martedì 8 aprile 2014

Bank- sovereign nexus should be mediated by citizens activism

Banks are like two-front Giano. On the one hand banks finance speculative assets in financial markets creating systemic risks, on the other hand banks acquire public bonds once the financial crisis has been materialized in the real economy.


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lunedì 7 aprile 2014

International monetary stability: a coordination among central banks or a global central bank of central banks?

«[…] As the Fed tapers back on its purchases of US treasury securities, it is a perfect time for the ECB to step in, and buy some itself.» (Jeffrey Frankel, Considering QE, Mario? Buy US bonds, not Eurobonds, 24 March 2014, Voxeu.org)
In this article it is proposed a sort of international quantitative easing for ECB. The author proposes a new expansive monetary politics: a central banks should have some advantage in realizing a quantitative easing acquiring bond issued by foreign government. In particular the author proposes that ECB should acquire t-bills issued by US government.

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