Finance

July 19, 2023

Greedflation?

The last three years have brought many old ghosts to Europe. The COVID-19 pandemic was the biggest health crisis since the Spanish flu, wars have erupted again on European soil after decades of peace, and inflation, a long-gone foe for the bureaucrats in the European Central Bank, has struck again.
January 31, 2023

Consolidated Tape: a Radical Change to European Stock Exchanges

European stock exchanges are keenly waiting on the details about the implementation of a consolidated ticker tape. A stock exchange’s ticker tape reports the most recent price of a stock based on its last trade along with the volume.
June 18, 2020

Inflation: the Next Threat?

The policy reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic will increase budget deficits massively in all the world’s leading countries. The deficits will to a significant extent be monetised, with heavy state borrowing from both national central banks and commercial banks.
May 5, 2020

The Problems of Financing Through European Mechanisms

There has been a great deal of debate recently – not just in the media, but also in academia and among economic analysts – about the availability and desirability of various financial instruments to deal with the fallout from the Corona crisis, especially for some of the worst-hit nations such as Spain or Italy.