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Ending QE: Why it's necessary and how to do it

American former Federal Reserve insider Danielle DiMartino Booth will give a keynote speech on how and why the world's central banks need to normalize monetary policy. A panel with Stéphane Rottier (IMF, ex-ECB) and Geert Noels (Econopolis) will subsequently discuss the situation in the Eurozone.

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Date

16 May 2018 12:00

Location (map)

Thon Hotel EU, Germany Room
Wetstraat 75
1040 Brussels
Belgium

Entrance fee

Free

A new mandate for the ECB?

The European Central Bank ensures price stability in all eurozone countries. Price stability? Well, in the medium term, the ECB is trying to get price inflation on average or just under 2 percent . Does the ECB go too far to achieve that goal? Is it actually necessary that we have 2 percent price inflation? Should that mandate be modified? And how about the risks? Pascal Paepen and Lex Hoogduin go into these and other questions at this second event of Leergeld.EU. This event will be in Dutch.

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Date

26 June 2017 12:00

Location (map)

Hilton Brussels Grand Place
Carrefour de l'Europe 3
1000 Brussels
Belgium

Entrance fee

Free

Audit The ECB

Why QE and ultra-low interest rates are bad for the economy
On Thursday, January 26th Leergeld.EU organizes its first event. Jürgen Stark and Ivan Van de Cloot will discuss the harmful effects of the European Central Bank's monetary policy on the Eurozone and Belgium. That same day, a campaign will be launched under the name 'Audit the ECB' calling for greater transparency in the decision-making of the ECB and an independent study on the impact of monetary policy on banks, pension funds and the economy.

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Date

26 January 2017 9:00

Location (map)

Renaissance Brussels Hotel
Parnassusstraat 19
1050 Brussel
Belgium

Entrance fee

Free