Is inflation targeting dead? Central Banking After the Crisis

Lucrezia Reichlin, Richard Baldwin, 14 April 2013

Inflation targeting did not prevent financial instability before the Crisis nor did it provide sufficient stimulus after the Crisis. In this eBook, 14 world-renowned scholars, practitioners and market participants analyse inflation targeting and its future. They argue that inflation targeting should be refined not replaced. Indeed, it is needed now more than ever to keep expectations anchored while the advanced economies work their way through today’s slow growth, rickety banks, and over-indebted public sectors.

Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak

Bernard Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis, 3 April 2013

In this VoxEU eBook, seven of the nine candidates for Director General of the WTO offer a short essay exploring challenges to the world trading system and how they would tackle them. Taken together, the essays provide a uniquely comprehensive view of the world’s trade governance problems. It will be an important reference long after the selection process ends.

Banking Union for Europe - Risks and Challenges

Thorsten Beck, 16 October 2012

While a banking union for Europe has been discussed by economists since even before the 2007 crisis, the issue has now moved up to the top of the Eurozone agenda. But what kind of banking union? For whom? Financed how? And managed by whom? This new Vox eBook comprises 15 papers on the topic by leading economists from both sides of the Atlantic.

Austerity: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Giancarlo Corsetti, 23 June 2012

Austerity: Too Much of a Good Thing? Cover

This eCollection summarizes the views of leading economists about the path and content of budget adjustment that can help advance economies to move out of the crisis, and resolve the policy impasse that is unsettling the Eurozone.

The Future of Banking

Thorsten Beck, 25 October 2011

This new Vox eBook presents a collection of essays by leading European and US economists that offer solutions to the crisis and proposals for medium- to long-term reforms to the regulatory framework in which financial institutions operate.

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