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Unlocking the power of ideas
Posted in: News
Apr
23
2024
Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at Yale University in New Haven, USA… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/key/date/2024/html/ecb.sp240422~0f3299e7bb.en.html
Disinflation in the euro area: an update
Posted in: News
Apr
16
2024
Speech by Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the University College Dublin Economics Society… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/key/date/2024/html/ecb.sp240415~08ef84923c.en.html
R(ising) star?
Posted in: News
Mar
21
2024
Over the past two years, we have seen a measurable and persistent rise in real interest rates across many advanced economies, partly reversing the secular decline that started in the early 1980s… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/key/date/2024/html/ecb.sp240320_2~65962ef771.en.html
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Mar
16
2024
We focus on the guiding principles underpinning the current portfolio of the main macroeconomic models and illustrate how they can in principle be used for economic forecasting, scenario and risk analyses… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//pub/pdf/scpops/ecb.op344~53b9e2aa4d.en.pdf
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Mar
16
2024
The abrupt liquidity needs of investment funds, triggered by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, prompted a retrenchment from bond purchases of firms and a withdrawal of short term funds from banks, impacting firm financing costs directly via bond markets, and indirectly via banks… ...more »
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ECB: Monetary policy decisions
Posted in: News
Mar
11
2024
The Governing Council today decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged. Since the last Governing Council meeting in January, inflation has declined further. In the latest ECB staff projections, inflation has been revised down, in particular for 2024 which mainly reflects a ...more »
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Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
Posted in: News
Feb
25
2024
On 29 January 2024 the Governing Council approved amendments to the standard questionnaire used in the euro area bank lending survey (BLS)… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/govcdec/otherdec/2024/html/ecb.gc240223~b09bfd5ce7.en.html
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Preserving people’s freedom to use a public means of payment: insights into the digital euro preparation phase
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Feb
17
2024
Introductory statement by Piero Cipollone, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/key/date/2024/html/ecb.sp240214_1~4bf1ab0319.en.html
Tagged width: ecb, fintech, politica monetaria
Feb
07
2024
The natural rate of interest, r* (or “r-star”), is defined as the real rate of interest that is neither expansionary nor contractionary… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//pub/economic-bulletin/focus/2024/html/ecb.ebbox202401_07~72edc611d3.en.html
Tagged width: capital markets, ecb, politica monetaria
Results of the December 2023 Survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives markets (SESFOD)
Posted in: News
Feb
03
2024
Overall credit terms and conditions offered to different counterparty types remained on balance unchanged between September and November 2023, contrasting with the expectations of further tightening expressed in the September 2023 survey… https://www.ecb.europa.eu//press/pr/date/2024/html/ecb.pr240202~12b22c8c2b.en.html
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