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Sergio Cesaratto – Sharing Central
Banks’ costs and profits of monetary policy in the euro area
(Adapted for Brave New Europe
from Lavoce.info) ; the
author thanks Giancarlo Bergamini for help in editing the translation).
A debate has developed in Europe (on
Vox.eu and elsewhere) on the fiscal costs related to the interest payments that
central banks in the eurozone are bestowing on commercial banks, a result of
the way monetary policy is currently conducted. The
implementation of monetary policy currently revolves around the ECB’s direct control
of the interest rate paid on an abundant excess of bank reserves (relative to
mandatory reserve