Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability in the Euro Area

There is an article on this topic in the ECB Monthly Bulletin:  you can read it here.

New Central Bank Quarterly Bulletin

The new bulletin is available here.

Workshop: Eurozone With or Without Sovereign Default?

I’m going to Florence this afternoon to present at a workshop on “Life in the Eurozone With or Without Sovereign Default?” that will be taking place tomorrow at the European University Institute. The program looks interesting and there will be a live web stream of the event. The slides for my presentation are here in Powerpoint 2007 format and here in a somewhat grimier PDF.

IMF Fiscal Monitor

The new Fiscal Monitor is available here.   Required reading in order to understand the scale of the fiscal adjustment required in Ireland and other advanced economies.

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi: Ireland’s Taxpayers Must Share the Pain

LBS writes in the FT : article is here.