Sergio Cesaratto: Politica and EconomiaBlog

 Da Brave New Europe, 1 febbraio 2022Sergio Cesaratto – The anniversary of Maastricht: little to celebrate The Maastricht Treaty was signed on 9 February 1992. Thirty years later it is responsible for much suffering, inequality, and poverty within the fragile eurozone. Sergio Cesaratto teaches European monetary and fiscal policies at the University of Siena. He is author of Heterodox Challenges in Economics – Theoretical Issues and the Crisis of...

 The November Lectures in Monetary Theory and Policy: Recent History and Contemporary Issues, given at the Higher School of Economics are now uploaded to Youtube at  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgRjyvJG4zZgXj8ThLBGSfg/videos  

 Video presentazione 18 dicembre 2021.oppure copia e incolla  https://www.facebook.com/101082411613150/videos/380739933807905 

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An ECB’s Staff Narrative of Two Decades of European Central Banking: a critical review Working Paper n.866 Dicembre 2021Sergio Cesaratto DEPS, USiena Abstract Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis (Rostagno et al. 2021) has three relevant features. The first is its criticism of the absence of an adequate European fiscal policy during the financial crisis. This left the ECB on its own. The second feature concerns the...

Sergio Cesaratto – Those Italian subsidies for Germany December 8, 2021 Economics, EU politics, EU-Institutions, Finance, Inequality, National Politics, Regulation Italy has paid for certain ill-advised policies of the ECB – influenced by Berlin, the dominant power in Europe – with dozens of points of additional debt/GDP and finding itself ever poorer, while Germany symmetrically gained. Sergio Cesaratto teaches European monetary and fiscal...

  Quei sussidi italiani alla GermaniaSergio Cesaratto da Micromega online Dicembre 3, 2021   English version hereL’Italia ha pagato certe sciagurate politiche della BCE – influenzate da Berlino, potenza dominante in Europa – con decine di punti di debito/PIL in più e trovandosi ancor più povera, mentre la Germania simmetricamente ci guadagnava.  *** Già nella prima edizione delle Sei lezioni di economia denunciavo l’enorme risparmio nella spesa per interessi che il governo...

The third lecture of the online course Monetary Theory and Policy: Recent History and Contemporary Issues (9th November, 2021) Speaker: Sergio Cesaratto (Professor, University of Siena) Topic: Conventional and Non-conventional Monetary Policies This material is used for educational purposes and with permission from the copyright holders - the authors and National Research University Higher School of Economics.

The second lecture of the online course Monetary Theory and Policy: Recent History and Contemporary Issues (9th November, 2021) Speaker: Sergio Cesaratto (Professor, University of Siena) Topic: Systems of Payments This material is used for educational purposes and with permission from the copyright holders - the authors and National Research University Higher School of Economics.

The first lecture of the online course Monetary Theory and Policy: Recent History and Contemporary Issues (8th November, 2021) Speaker: Sergio Cesaratto (Professor, University of Siena) Topic: The Notions of Endogenous and Exogenous Money This material is used for educational purposes and with permission from the copyright holders - the authors and National Research University Higher School of Economics.