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Jean Pisani-Ferry

Jean Pisani-Ferry is Professor of Economics at Université Paris-Dauphine and currently serves as the Director of Economic Policy Planning for the Prime Minister of France. He is a former director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic think tank.


Commentaries by Jean Pisani-Ferry

  • Newsart for Europe’s Troika Should Grow Up

    Europe’s Troika Should Grow Up

    PARIS – In early 2010, a group of men (and a few women) in dark suits landed in Athens. They belonged to a global institution, the Internati…

  • Newsart for A Fateful Mistake

    A Fateful Mistake

    PARIS – Controversy is essential to the advancement of science. So the debunking of methodological flaws and a coding error in a paper by th…

  • Newsart for The Politics of Moral Hazard

    The Politics of Moral Hazard

    BRUSSELS – It is an old and never-ending contest. On one side are the moral-hazard scolds, claiming that one of the major responsibilities c…

  • Newsart for The Euro’s House Divided

    The Euro’s House Divided

    BRUSSELS – The European Commission’s latest economic outlook paints a disheartening picture: unemployment rates close to or above 5% in Aust…

  • Newsart for Is the Euro Crisis Over?

    Is the Euro Crisis Over?

    BRUSSELS – Financial crises tend to start abruptly and end by surprise. Three years ago, the euro crisis began when Greece became a cause fo…

  • Newsart for Alternative Fiscal Medicine?

    Alternative Fiscal Medicine?

    BRUSSELS – Forget the fiscal cliff. The real issue is the fiscal mountain. According to the International Monetary Fund, the challenge of re…

  • Newsart for Should Europe Emulate the US?

    Should Europe Emulate the US?

    BRUSSELS – Paul Krugman, the Princeton University economist and blogger, recently summarized diverging transatlantic trends as follows: “Bet…

  • Newsart for Fiscal Closing Time?

    Fiscal Closing Time?

    BRUSSELS – Is it time for fiscal consolidation or stimulus? Should governments cut or increase spending? Once again the issue is a matter of…

  • Newsart for Central Banks on the Offensive?

    Central Banks on the Offensive?

    FRANKFURT – It looks like a coordinated offensive: on September 6, the European Central Bank outlined a new bond-buying program, letting mar…

  • Newsart for Federalism or Bust for Europe?

    Federalism or Bust for Europe?

    BRUSSELS – August was quieter than feared on the European bond markets. So, while resting on Europe’s beaches and mountains, policymakers co…

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  • Europe’s Troika Should Grow Up

    Zsolt Hermann: Banks, financial institutions are a very important part of our lives, but at the end of the day they are means, they are a service for other, more important parts of our lives. Now as a result of the…

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