Month: February 2014

The Troika and financial assistance in the euro area: successes and failures

Bruegel report here.

Lending Where Banks Can’t, Blackstone Thrives in Ireland

Landon Thomas writes in the NYT here.

Research Economist position at TCD

Details via TCD jobs site here.   (Set competition type to Research and Department to IIIS.)

The Eiffel group: for a Euro community

Here.

I dare say it will strike most people as pie in the sky, but it makes sense that people who want to preserve the Euro start formulating proposals such as this. Two reasonable conditions attaching to any such proposal seem to me to be that: (a) entry to any such community be decided by popular referenda in each country; and (b) that there be some sort of Connecticut compromise in place so that the rights of small states are protected.

Benoît Cœuré: Exchange of views on the ECB’s role in the troika

here.