Compact Explanations of the Fiscal Compact and Cyclical Adjustment of the Budget Balance

The new ECB Monthly Bulletin includes handy summaries of the Fiscal Compact and Cyclical Adjustment of the Government Budget Balance  (Boxes 12 and 13; pages 101-105)

In Whose Interest?

Paul Hunt is a regular commenter on this blog. He has an article in the latest issue of the Dublin Review of Books.

Fiscal Compact – Presentation

My slides from this evening’s Policy Institute event are available here.

LTRO and Sovereign Debt

Paul De Grauwe argues that the LTRO operation is a poor substitute for direct ECB intervention in the sovereign debt market in this FT article.

Understanding Banking in Ireland

Central Bank economists have released two new technical papers on the Irish banking sector:

Modelling the corporate deposits of Irish financial institutions: 2009 – 2010

The financial crisis and the pricing of interest rates in the Irish mortgage market: 2003-2011