Analytical article of ICEF assistant professor in the Voxeu column

30 October 2012 an analytical article of ICEF assistant professor Udara Peiris (co-authored with Michael McMahon and Herakles Polemarchakis) was published in the Voxeu column. The theme of the article: “Outright Monetary Transactions sterilised?”

30 October 2012 an analytical article of ICEF assistant professor Udara Peiris (co-authored with Michael McMahon and Herakles Polemarchakis) was published in the Voxeu column. The theme of the article: “Outright Monetary Transactions sterilised?”

Abstract
Sterilisation’ - where purchases of assets by a central bank are offset by withdrawals - may help the ECB to control inflation. This column discusses how the ECB’s current approach may be fraught with danger, however. In a world where sovereign default risk is perceived to be likely, the ECB’s only real hope is that its approach makes a Eurozone default impossible.

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