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Stefan Gerlach

Stefan Gerlach

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Stefan Gerlach is Chief Economist at EFG Bank in Zurich and a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. He is also a former Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Secretary to the Committee on the Global Financial System at the BIS.

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  1. Crunch Time for Central Banks
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    Crunch Time for Central Banks

    Sep 15, 2020 Stefan Gerlach urges monetary policymakers to respond to shifting public sentiment on inequality and the environment.

  2. Who Can Influence the ECB?
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    Who Can Influence the ECB?

    Oct 4, 2019 Stefan Gerlach urges eurozone governments not to nominate inflexible candidates to the European Central Bank's Executive Board.

  3. It’s Time for the ECB to Put QE on Hold
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    It’s Time for the ECB to Put QE on Hold

    Sep 9, 2019 Stefan Gerlach argues that the eurozone does not need additional monetary stimulus for the time being.

  4. Lagarde’s ECB Checklist
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    Lagarde’s ECB Checklist

    Jul 26, 2019 Stefan Gerlach lists five steps that the European Central Bank's next president should take now and on taking office in November.

  5. The ECB Needs to Explain Itself
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    The ECB Needs to Explain Itself

    Jul 8, 2019 Stefan Gerlach calls for the European Central Bank to clarify numerous ambiguities about its monetary-policy strategy.

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    Tick TikTok Goes Globalization

    Kenneth Rogoff

    The bipartisan push to ban TikTok in the US reflects both the growing distrust of China and lawmakers’ limited understanding of the tech world. While there are legitimate national-security concerns associated with the platform, a US ban could end up accelerating deglobalization.

     thinks efforts to restrict American users’ access to the app are hypocritical and counterproductive.
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    To Reconstruct Turkey, Rebuild Its Democracy

    Daron Acemoglu & Cihat Tokgöz

    Turkey's massive death toll from the earthquakes in February attests to a much larger problem. From an overly powerful construction lobby and endemic corruption to the steady erosion of democratic institutions, it is clear that the country now needs a thorough political and economic transformation.

     think the country needs not just a new government but a broader economic and political transformation.
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    India’s Boom Is a Dangerous Myth

    Ashoka Mody dismantles the hype around a rosy economic narrative that is actually becoming bleaker by the day.
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    Halting the Authoritarian Drift

    Kaushik Basu considers the dynamics that lead political leaders down the road to tyranny, paranoia, and aggression.
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    Xi’s the Boss

    Nina L. Khrushcheva says the Chinese leader's recent visit to Moscow was intended, first and foremost, to show who is in charge.
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    Can “Cooperative Rivalry” Work?

    Jean Pisani-Ferry worries that America and China will be unable to find common ground on preserving the global commons.
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    The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures

    Raghuram G. Rajan & Viral V. Acharya show how the US central bank's liquidity policies created the conditions for runs on uninsured deposits.
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    Policymakers Keep Solving the Wrong Banking Problem

    Andrés Velasco argues that recent market turmoil has revealed that the sector’s main vulnerability is unavoidable.
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    An Insolvency Iceberg?

    Takatoshi Ito considers the risk that other banks will experience liquidity problems as interest rates continue to rise.

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