How did the EU respond to the Crisis? Insights from the European Central Bank

A conférence with guest speaker Massimo Rostagno, Director General, Monetary Policy, European Central Bank.
Introduced by Enrico Letta, Dean of Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA),
Moderated by Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Professor of Economics, University of Milan ; Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs Faculty Member.
Based on its mandate to preserve price stability, over the past few years the European Central Bank has enacted a complex package of monetary policy measures to stave off the most damaging and lasting symptoms of the global financial crisis that hit the advanced world 10 years ago.
While, in many respects, Europe’s society is still recovering from the aftermaths of the Great Contraction, the monetary policy measures have succeeded in minimising the severity of the crisis and placing Europe’s economy on a sustained growth pathway.
 
Massimo Rostagno is Director General Monetary Policy. Before joining the European Central Bank in 1998, he was a research economist at the Banca d’Italia and later desk Economist in the European Department of the IMF. He has written on the political economy of fiscal policy, on the reform of social security, on the history and theory of monetary standards, on stochastic general equilibrium macro-modelling and on monetary economics in general. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and contributed to several other publications.
 
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