EBA: Details on 2014 EU-wide stress test

here.

Mody: The ECB is much too stodgy – the euro fuelled a leveraged bet that went bad

here.

Squaring the Eurozone’s Vicious Circle

Garicano and Reichlin write here.

‘Hardball’ v ‘Equity Sale’

The Irish Times today features two contrasting strategies for dealing with the debt legacy created by the Irish bank bailout.

An interview RTE’s Sean Whelan did with Willem Buiter is available here.

Barrington Medal lecture

Yvonne McCarthy (Central Bank) will be giving her Barrington Lecture on Thursday evening in the ESRI. Full details here.

The title, “Disentangling the mortgage arrears crisis: The role of the labour market, income volatility and negative equity”, gives an indication of its policy relevance.