Driven by the markets? ECB sovereign bond purchases and the securities markets programme |
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Authors: | Ansgar Belke |
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Institution: | (1) Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Integration and president of the European Institute for International Economic Relations (EIIW), University of Wuppertal, Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany;(2) AICGS/Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, USA;(3) Research Fellow IZA, Bonn, Germany;(4) Alfred Grosser Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, France |
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Abstract: | At the height of the European sovereign debt crisis, the European Central Bank decided to purchase distressed European government
bonds. Even worse, and more importantly, the ECB is providing direct support of several hundred billions of euros to troubled
banks via its normal monetary policy operations by granting them the opportunity to refinance at an interest rate of 1%. This
article argues that these purchases will result in common monetary policy being dominated by national fiscal policies. The
most worrisome aspect is that the euro area appears to have stumbled into unconventional monetary policies that, once started,
will be difficult to exit. In the euro area, properly functioning financial markets are at risk. |
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