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Volatility and uncertainty are not the same!

 Billet du 4 mai 2015
Par Valérie Mignon, Marc Joëts, Tovonony Razafindrabe
Crude oil price volatility is often viewed as reflecting uncertainty not only related to the oil market, but also to the global macroeconomic environment. However, the question arises as to whether uncertainty is not likely to be at play without generating high volatility on the oil market.

QE à l’européenne : comment soutenir l’investissement ?

 Billet du 20 avril 2015
Par Urszula Szczerbowicz, Natacha Valla
La BCE achètera mille milliards d’euros de titres de créance publics et privés d’ici septembre 2016. Ce programme d'assouplissement quantitatif pourrait faciliter le financement des projets d'investissement européens et des activités du secteur privé porteuses de croissance.


QE - "European style": be bolder, but parsimonious!

 Billet du 24 mars 2015
Par Urszula Szczerbowicz, Natacha Valla
The ECB will purchase a monthly €60bn of private and public debt instruments between March 2015 and September 2016 – a total worth over €1 trillion. While the timing and size of purchases are known, there is more leeway than it seems in the way purchases are allocated to each category of assets.





Quantitative Easing: were markets surprised?

 Billet du 24 janvier 2015
Par Stéphane Lhuissier
The ECB has announced that it will launch in March its first round of quantitative easing. The announcement contains some good and bad surprises: the size of the ECB's plan is gigantic, while the Central Bank was unclear about the Greek issue. How was this announcement perceived by markets?

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