Italy
Draghi accepts task of leading next Italian government
Former ECB president must first secure enough parliamentary support to become prime minister
Ulrich Bindseil on the launch of the digital euro
The ECB’s director-general for market infrastructure and payments speaks about the functionality, tiering approaches, privacy policies, ledger technology and ecosystem impact of the eurozone's planned CBDC
Eurozone needs major resolution reforms, Enria says
ECB supervisor says policy-makers should create new tools to deal with medium-sized banks
Early non-employment ‘scars’ workers – Bank of Italy paper
Effect is particularly severe for non-graduates and when conditions are good, research finds
The role of Tips for the future payments landscape
Tips could support euro CBDC plus cross-border payments in many currencies
Paper tracks changing rhetoric of Bank of Italy governors
Governors have changed the focus of their concluding remarks over time, as well as the length of their speeches
Otmar Issing on the art of central bank communications
EMU architect speaks about Draghi’s “whatever it takes” intervention, forward guidance failures, the Fed’s average inflation target ‘miscommunication’, and why the ECB may be overreaching in its strategy review
Olli Rehn on AIT, market neutrality and EU fiscal policies
The Bank of Finland governor talks about the ECB’s strategy review, market failure on climate change, lessons from the sovereign debt crisis, and the Draghi legacy effect on Covid-19 responses
Bank of Italy paper looks at flatter Phillips curve
Weaker collective bargaining has played key role in flattening relationship, researchers say
EU sees huge appetite for new triple-A asset
‘Sure’ bonds offer the ECB a less controversial option for asset purchases
Reserve managers weigh options to escape low yields
Longer-duration and emerging-market bonds may offer the way forward to portfolio managers
ECB should scale back monetary stimulus after crisis – Weidmann
Knot says central bank should adopt symmetry in the implementation of PEPP purchases
IRB approach can squeeze credit supply- Bank of Italy paper
Costs of credit for private firms from IRB-regulated banks rises as instability increases, paper says
Fintech can worsen inequality, BIS paper warns
Diffusion of technology helps to spread the benefits evenly, authors say
Coronavirus panic fuels a surge in cash demand
Covid-19 has led to banknote hoarding in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the eurozone, Russia and the US, fuelled by concerns about financial system stress, write Jonathan Ashworth and Charles Goodhart
Lagarde welcomes Franco-German fund plan
Covid-19 response fund would be drawn from common EU budget
The ECB, the lockdown and the monetary financing lock
The eurozone’s central bank may need to break its prohibition on monetary financing to fight the pandemic
Bank of Italy paper examines expectations’ effects on spending
Researchers find inflation levels affect strength of income and intertemporal substitution effects
Pricing the lives saved by coronavirus policies
How does the effort to reduce risks to human life from Covid-19 compare with the economic losses?
ECB’s negative rates boosted lending – Bank of Italy paper
Banks increased credit to ex ante riskier firms, but did not see rise in failed loan rates, researchers find
ECB strongly criticised by French and Italian leaders
Lagarde’s words spark Italian anger while Macron says first ECB measures are not sufficient
Lagarde misstep overshadows ‘bold’ measures, analysts say
ECB president seemed to have hampered governments’ debt financing at a critical juncture
Policy responses to Covid-19
The coronavirus outbreak poses a real threat to the global economy, writes Sayuri Shirai
Green finance needs better data, Visco says
Bank of Italy’s portfolio has improved since it began examining ESG scores, governor says