The Franco-German Council of Economic Experts Agnès Bénassy Quéré (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Clemens Fuest (Ifo Institut), Marcel Fratzscher (DIW Berlin), Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics), Philippe Martin (Sciences Po Paris), Xavier Ragot (Sciences Po Paris), Christoph ...
There are now several proposals for complementing the vigorous decision of the ECB to launch a mega ‘pandemic emergency purchase programme’ with fiscal and financial initiatives at the European level. These proposals sometimes overlap, which is a good sign of convergence. This column argues that they are also largely complementary to one another. Hence, it calls for a multi-instrument approach ...
Since the 1980s, especially in the new millenium, the issue of debt is increasingly the focus of political debates, as an analysis of parliamentary speeches since 1949 shows. More than ten years after the outbreak of the great financial crisis and almost ten years since the beginning of the European sovereignty debt crisis, there are not just questions about the opportunities and risks of debt but ...
Das Thema Schulden hat seit den 1980er Jahren und insbesondere in den vergangenen 20 Jahren zunehmend Raum in den politischen Debatten eingenommen, wie eine Analyse von Parlamentsreden seit 1949 zeigt. Über zehn Jahre nach Ausbruch der Großen Finanzkrise und bald zehn Jahre seit Beginn der Europäischen Staatsschuldenkrise sind Fragen zu den Chancen und Risiken der Verschuldung und Debatten ...
13 europäische ÖkonomInnen befürworten Corona-Kreditlinien vom Europäischen Stabilitätsmechanismus ESM. DIW Präsident und Co-Autor des Vorschlags Marcel Fratzscher kommentiert:
It is in the interest of every EU member state that countries in the Union hit by the coronavirus are able to take the necessary measures to control the pandemic and deal with the economic consequences without being constrained, and to do so very quickly. This column proposes a Covid credit line in the European Stability Mechanism, with allocation across member states proportionate to the severity ...
