Calendrier du 08 juin 2022
Paris Migration and Demographic Economics Seminar (PMDES)
Du 08/06/2022 de 16:30 à 19:00
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan
FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ Martin(LISER)
BAZZI Samuel(UC San Diego - School of Global Policy & Strategy)
Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration with Lisa Cameron, Simone Schaner, and Firman Witoelar
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 08/06/2022 de 16:00 à 17:30
Salle R1.14, Campus Jourdan
JABKO Nicolas ()
The ECB’s new normal and the changing politics of money after 2007 - La nouvelle normalité de la Banque Centrale Européenne
This chapter challenges a widespread view that the European Union of the 2010s stuck to, and
later reluctantly abandoned, a neoliberal “Frankfurt consensus” of price stability and fiscal
restraint pushed by the European Central Bank. As I argue, the ECB did political work to
establish what I call a new normal, ultimately squeezing crisis-time unconventional actions into
its policy repertoire. The ECB is at the origin of EU fiscal retrenchment, but then it lost control
of its creature. Increasingly, ECB leaders questioned and even resisted the Frankenstein-like
politics of austerity. They alienated doctrinaire fiscal conservatives early on, including those on
the ECB Governing Council. In adopting unconventional policies of unprecedented monetary
expansion, and later in tacitly supporting greater fiscal accommodation, the ECB evolved into a
rather agile central bank. This decade-long evolution helps to understand why, in response to the
pandemic, the ECB quickly stepped up its asset purchases and became an advocate for an
ambitious fiscal expansion at the EU level. Far from utilizing the ECB’s independence to singlemindedly
pursue neoliberal policies, ECB leaders pushed back against rigid conservative
attitudes among central banks, eurozone governments, and segments of the public.
Economic History Seminar
Du 08/06/2022 de 12:00 à 13:30
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan
SIMSON Rebecca (University of Oxford)
Elite persistence in Sierra Leone: what can names tell us?
écrit avec with Yannick Dupraz and Henry Musa Kpaka