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Lucrezia Reichlin

Lucrezia Reichlin

Writing for PS since 2014
29 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

Lucrezia Reichlin, a former director of research at the European Central Bank, is Professor of Economics at the London Business School and a trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation.

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  1. Lessons from the SVB Collapse
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    Lessons from the SVB Collapse

    Mar 17, 2023 Lucrezia Reichlin considers what the bank’s failure should mean for the current financial-stability framework.

  2. Central Banks Should Slow Down
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    Central Banks Should Slow Down

    Jan 30, 2023 Lucrezia Reichlin fears the consequences of excessive interest-rate hikes in the US, the UK, and especially the eurozone.

  3. Meloni’s Choice
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    Meloni’s Choice

    Nov 11, 2022 Lucrezia Reichlin worries that Italy's new government will become a force of division in the European Union.

  4. The Italian Right Is Coming
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    The Italian Right Is Coming

    Sep 7, 2022 Lucrezia Reichlin examines the ideas that will most likely shape the policies of the country’s next government.

  5. Eurozone Divergences Are Back
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    Eurozone Divergences Are Back

    Jul 6, 2022 Lucrezia Reichlin advocates a new, flexible asset-purchase program to limit sovereign spreads amid monetary-policy tightening.

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    Hell in the Holy Land

    Carl Bildt fears that the stage is set for another major violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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    The Fed Must Not Flinch

    Michael R. Strain urges the US central bank to continue raising interest rates, despite signs of financial-sector fragility.
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    Reimagining Development

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng argue that grassroots engagement and social enterprise are crucial to achieving countries' aspirations.
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    What the World Bank Can Do About Climate Change

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg explains how the institution can maximize its contribution to the global net-zero agenda.
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    Richard Haass on Russia, Taiwan, and US democracy

    Richard Haass explains what caused the Ukraine war, urges the West to scrutinize its economic dependence on China, proposes ways to reverse the dangerous deterioration of democracy in America, and more.
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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

    thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Jeffrey Frankel

    The half-century since the official demise of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates has shown the benefits of what replaced it. While some may feel nostalgic for the postwar monetary system, its collapse was inevitable, and what looked like failure has given rise to a remarkably resilient regime.

    explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.

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