Antonio Fatas on the Global Economy

In his last press conference Mario Draghi said that the ECB was ready for negative deposit rates if necessary. His comments led to several E...

Martin Wolf at the Financial Times argues that the future of the world economy, in particular that of advanced economies, looks sluggish be...

The presentation of Larry Summers at a recent IMF conference  has generated a good amount of comments. While some of what he said was not co...

In a recent Vox article , Lorenzo Bini Smaghi raises some questions about the argument that austerity is the main reason why European countr...

When I teach these days about the negative performance of the Euro economies over the last six years I always get asked about how policy mak...

For some it is clear that the all-time record levels in the stock market are supported by loose monetary and the day policy starts changing,...

I did not realize that some of my earlier posts on sudden stops and the Euro area would be so controversial, I thought I was making a simple...