Following a weak start into 2015, the global economy is expected to pick up again in the course of this year. Average annual world output growth will nevertheless remain sluggish at 3.4 percent on a purchasing power parity weighted basis, before accelerating modestly to 3.8 percent next year....

The ECB’s recently launched Expanded Asset Purchasing Programme is similar to the quantitative easing programmes undertaken by the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan. While theory suggests that quantitative easing can stimulate economic growth and spur inflation via...

[Erholung der Weltwirtschaft verliert an Schwung] Die kräftige Expansion der Weltwirtschaft setzte sich nach der Jahreswende fort und hielt auch im zweiten Quartal 2010 an. Die Aussichten für die Weltkonjunktur haben sich zuletzt zwar eingetrübt. In den Schwellenländern dürfte die...

To ease credit and financing conditions for firms and households, in recent years the ECB has taken a number of unconventional (non-standard) monetary policy measures. These measures include the provision of liquidity through the direct purchase of private and government assets (direct...

To ease credit and financing conditions for firms and households, in recent years the ECB has taken a number of unconventional (non-standard) monetary policy measures. These measures include the provision of liquidity through the direct purchase of private and government assets (direct...

At the press conference following the ECB Governing Council meeting of 3 December 2015, the President of the ECB Mario Draghi reiterated the readiness of the ECB to adopt, if necessary, additional measures - in terms of size, composition and duration of the of the asset purchase programme EAPP -...

At the press conference following the ECB Governing Council meeting of 3 December 2015, the President of the ECB Mario Draghi reiterated the readiness of the ECB to adopt, if necessary, additional measures - in terms of size, composition and duration of the of the asset purchase programme EAPP -...

The notes in this compilation review the main features (size, structure, etc.) of sovereign bond markets in euro area Member States and discuss, in the relation to expanded asset purchase programme (EAPP) of the ECB, the financial risks the Eurosystem is potentially taking on its balance sheet...