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dc.contributor.authorDubois, Roberten
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-05-
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-12T14:21:36Z-
dc.date.available2012-04-12T14:21:36Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/57036-
dc.description.abstractNot since the Great Depression have monetary policy matters and institutions weighed so heavily in commercial, financial, and political arenas. Apart from the eurozone crisis and global monetary policy issues, for nearly two years all else has counted for little more than noise on a relative risk basis. In major developed economies, a hypermature secular decline in interest rates is pancaking against a hard, roughly zero lower-rate bound (i.e., barring imposition of rather extreme policies such as a tax on cash holdings, which could conceivably drive rates deeply negative). Relentlessly mounting aggregate debt loads are rendering monetary- and fiscal policy-impaired governments and segments of society insolvent and struggling to escape liquidity quicksands and stubbornly low or negative growth and employment trends. At the center of the current crisis is the European Monetary Union (EMU) - a monetary union lacking fiscal and political integration. Such partial integration limits policy alternatives relative to either full federal integration of member-states or no integration at all. As we have witnessed since spring 2008, this operationally constrained middle ground progressively magnifies economic divergence and political and social discord across member-states. Given the scale and scope of the eurozone crisis, policy and actions taken (or not taken) by the European Central Bank (ECB) meaningfully impact markets large and small, and ripple with force through every major monetary policy domain. History, for the moment, has rendered the ECB the world’s most important monetary policy pivot point. Since November 2011, the ECB has taken on an arguably activist liquidity-provider role relative to private banks (and, in some important measure, indirectly to sovereigns) while maintaining its long-held post as 'rhetorical' promoter of staunch fiscal discipline relative to sovereignty-encased 'peripheral' states lacking full monetary and fiscal integration. In December 2011, the ECB made clear its intention to inject massive liquidity when faced with crises of scale in future. Already demonstratively disposed toward easing due to conditions on their respective domestic fronts, other major central banks have mobilized since the third quarter of 2011. The collective global central banking policy posture has thus become more homogenized, synchronized, and directionally clear than at any time since early 2009.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aLevy Economics Institute of Bard College |cAnnandale-on-Hudson, NYen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper |x710en
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dc.subject.keywordEurozoneen
dc.subject.keywordmonetary policyen
dc.subject.keywordfiscal policyen
dc.subject.keywordEuropean Central Banken
dc.subject.keywordEuropean Monetary Unionen
dc.subject.keyworddebt monetizationen
dc.subject.keywordEuroen
dc.subject.keywordBaselen
dc.subject.keywordsovereign debten
dc.subject.keywordcredit default swapsen
dc.subject.keywordliquidityen
dc.subject.keywordsolvencyen
dc.subject.keyworddeleveragingen
dc.subject.keywordLTROen
dc.titleThe European Central Bank and why things are the way they are: A historic monetary policy pivot point and moment of (relative) clarity-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn687924375en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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