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A more effective euro area monetary policy than OMTs: Gold-backed sovereign debt
This paper argues that using gold as collateral for highly distressed bonds would bring great benefits to the euro area in terms of reduced financing costs and bridge-financing. It is mindful of the legal issues that this will raise and that such a suggestion will be highly controversial. However, a necessary condition is that the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) has agreed to the temporary transfer of the national central bank's gold to a debt agency in full independence. This debt agency passes the gold along, in strict compliance with the prohibition of monetary debt financing. The paper also explains that gold has been used as collateral in the past and how a gold-backed bond might work and how it could lower yields in the context of the euro crisis. This move is then compared to the ECB's now terminated Securities Market Programme (SMP) and its recently announced Outright Monetary Transactions (OMTs). Namely, a central bank using its balance sheet to lower yields of highly distressed countries where the monetary policy transmission mechanism is no longer working. Beyond some similarities between the moves, the specific benefits of using gold in this manner vis-a-vis the SMP and the OMTs are highlighted. For instance, there is by and large no transfer of credit risk between high risk/low risk countries, losses are borne by specific countries and not by the largest shareholders of the ECB, it would turn out to be more transparent, it would not be inflationary and would foster reforms.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ROME Discussion Paper Series ; No. 13-03
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Monetary Policy
Central Banks and Their Policies
Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
- Thema
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bond pricing
collateral
debt crisis
gold
gold-backed bonds
Outright Monetary Transactions
Securities Market Programme
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Belke, Ansgar
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Research On Money in the Economy (ROME)
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s.l.
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2013
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Belke, Ansgar
- Research On Money in the Economy (ROME)
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- 2013
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