Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is set to be replaced by the very-smart Benoit Coeure of the French Treasury – his website is here.
Author: Philip Lane
So Sebastian Mallaby writes in this FT article.
Viral Acharya and Raghu Rajan provide an explanation as to why sovereign defaults are rare events in this VOXEU article.
Ashoka Mody and Damiano Sandri summarise their recent paper for the Economic Policy panel in this VOXEU article.
The members of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council were in front of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform last week – the transcript is here.