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Lucrezia Reichlin

Lucrezia Reichlin

Writing for PS since 2014
35 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

Lucrezia Reichlin, a former director of research at the European Central Bank, is Professor of Economics at the London Business School and a trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation.

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  1. Giorgia Meloni’s Surprising Success
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    Giorgia Meloni’s Surprising Success

    Mar 29, 2024 Lucrezia Reichlin predicts that the Italian prime minister will have a lasting influence on European politics.

  2. The Next Inflationary Surge
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    The Next Inflationary Surge

    Jan 31, 2024 Lucrezia Reichlin believes that recent US and European data may hold useful lessons for responding to future price volatility.

  3. The New Normal for Central Banks
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    The New Normal for Central Banks

    Nov 28, 2023 Lucrezia Reichlin asks why the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank keep providing liquidity directly to banks.

  4. The EU Needs Fiscal Union
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    The EU Needs Fiscal Union

    Sep 25, 2023 Lucrezia Reichlin laments the pro-cyclical bent of the European Commission’s proposed reforms to fiscal rules.

  5. Europe’s Monetary Over-Tightening Trap
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    Europe’s Monetary Over-Tightening Trap

    Jul 25, 2023 Lucrezia Reichlin worries that the European Central Bank’s hawkish stance on inflation could cause severe economic damage.

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    Protests of Despair

    Slavoj Žižek sees the pro-Palestinian student demonstrations as a signal of a much deeper, widespread malaise.
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    The Rise of the Finternet

    Agustín Carstens & Nandan Nilekani foresee a world in which cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous financial transactions are available to all.
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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang

    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

     explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.

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