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The FT Analysis page is devoted to the topic of European Banking Union today – read it here.

See also op-ed by Larry Summers on the euro crisis.

Two interesting events at the ESRI:

ESRI Seminar: “Macro-Prudential Policy and Credit: the Right Question but the Wrong Answer”
Speaker: Ray Barrell (Brunel)
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 18/06/2012
Time: 4 pm

Joint ESRI/IIIS TCD Lecture “Globalisation, Growth Strategies and the Financial Crisis”
Speaker: Arvind Virmani
Venue: The ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2
Date: 19/06/2012
Time: 4 pm

Albert Ritschl has written a very informative response to the NYT op-ed by Hans-Werner Sinn in this Free Exchange post.  (See also Karl’s post here.)

A while back (in pre-crisis days), Tim Guinnane wrote a nice paper on the 1953 London Debt Agreement – available here.

Seamus McGuinness and Philip O’Connell provide a critique of the estimates of Crilly, Pentecost and Tol in this note.

The IMF’s Sixth Review of the Extended Arrangement with Ireland can be read here.