Bitcoin’s El Salvador Option

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, shook the bitcoin world when he announced he would make bitcoin legal tender in his country. The hype after that was unbelievable, as the hodlers went into overdrive. According to Kristoffer Mousten Hansen, there were some more intelligent takes, but in general the impression was that we were...

Macroeconomic Policy Making and Current Account Imbalances in the Euro Area

Gunther Schnabl and Taiki Murai analyse the role of fiscal and monetary policy for the development of the current account imbalances in the euro area, including the most recent developments during the coronavirus crisis. Since the European financial and debt crisis, public financing mechanisms and the unconventional monetary of the ECB have contributed to...

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