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.
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Jean Pisani-Ferry
Commentaries by Jean Pisani-Ferry
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Should Europe Emulate the US?
BRUSSELS – Paul Krugman, the Princeton University economist and blogger, recently summarized diverging transatlantic trends as follows: “Bet…
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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…
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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…
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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 Zero-Sum Poison
BRUSSELS – Whenever a society regards its problems solely through the prism of distributional disputes, its chances of solving them diminish…
A Fateful Mistake
James Ross : If austerity ends in the Euro-Zone, then can we expect the bond vigilantes to up the ante re. debt?
A Fateful Mistake
Gary Foxwell: Economics is a wonderful profession. What other professions allow you to be constantly wrong and still argue that you are right. A weatherman comes to mind, but the weather proves them right or wrong …