Willem Buiter
Fixing market-based finance: duct tape or deep reform?
Deeper reforms may be needed to avoid stretching central banks’ balance sheets to breaking point
The Bank of Italy’s approach to risk-based budgeting
The financial crisis blurred the lines between Anglo-Saxon and continental European central bank models, presenting challenges when treating both the sources of risk and risk-bearing capacity using financial and accounting budgeting techniques
Monetary policy has inevitable fiscal effects – Willem Buiter
Former Bank of England official rails against fiscal theory of the price level in speech to RBI, but says monetary policy still cannot escape its fiscal dimension
Periphery CDSs break records as sovereign fears continue
Portugal might be next peripheral to seek help, economist warns, as its CDS hits record high.
Executive director Hoogduin tipped as Wellink’s successor
Netherlands Bank executive director Lex Hoogduin frontrunner to take over as president when Nout Wellink’s term expires
ECB will always end up bailing out sovereigns: Buiter
Former Bank of England rate-setter Willem Buiter says ECB will lose in “game of chicken” with finance ministries over who rescues sovereigns
Azerbaijan to move to DSGE model
National Bank of Azerbaijan will switch to consolidated DSGE framework by year-end; deputy research director says model valued for overall coherence and ability to factor in irrational behaviour
Biggest exit barriers political: Buiter
Willem Buiter says main obstacles to exiting unconventional policies
Ex-MPC’s Buiter to head Citi economics team
Former Bank of England policymaker and frequent bank-basher Willem Buiter named as Citigroup’s chief economist
Former Bank MPC members play down negative GDP number
Willem Buiter and Charles Goodhart dismiss third-quarter growth statistic; push for moderate expansion of quantitative-easing programme
Italy's Saccomanni hits out at protectionist claim
Fabrizio Saccomanni, the director general of the Bank of Italy, has attacked claims that a new facility set up by the central bank is protectionist.
Ex-MPC members offer solutions to crunch
A financial stability committee, a derivatives exchange and a pan-EU regulator were among the ideas suggested to stave off future credit crises by an influential group of British-based economists on Tuesday.
Top economists have their say on G20 summit
A group of 21 of the world's most prominent economists have called on officials from the G20 countries meeting in Washington this weekend to start thinking outside the box about longer-term reforms.
EU economists demand systemic response
A group of Europe's most prominent economists on Thursday urged Brussels to re-capitalise the continent's battered banking sector or risk the crisis spiralling out of control.
Mistakes made on liquidity - Tumpel-Gugerell
The current crisis shows central bankers and regulators underestimated liquidity risk, admitted the European Central Bank's Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell.
Ex-BoE's Buiter attacks Fed at Jackson Hole
Willem Buiter, a founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, has panned the Federal Reserve's response to the financial turmoil.
Can central banks go broke?
Central banks can go broke and have done so historically, Willem Buiter, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee now a professor at the London School of Economics, states in a new research paper.
Central banks partly to blame for crunch
The creation of excessive global liquidity by key central banks was one of a number of phenomena that led to the current financial crisis, says Willem Buiter, a former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, now an economics professor…
Comment: Flawed convergence criteria?
Willem Buiter and Anne Sibert, two London-based academics, have slammed the Maastricht criteria for entry into the eurozone. They point to a number of inconsistencies in way the conditions are applied and suggest that the current formulation "makes no…
Europe must relax inflation test for euro entrants
According to this article by Willem Buiter, published Thursday 4 May, forcing eurozone membership candidate countries to meet both an exchange rate criterion and an inflation criterion makes no economic sense.
Eastern Europe, CIS face slower growth-EBRD report
EASTERN EUROPE - Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union face a sharp reduction in economic growth and a growing imperative to step up the pace of reform, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said on Apr 22.