A more effective euro area monetary policy than OMTs — gold-backed sovereign debt

Ansgar Belke

Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, 2013, vol. 48, issue 4, 237-242

Abstract: Given the shortcomings of the current responses to the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone, the author proposes utilising national gold reserves as collateral for government debt. Gold backing would be quite attractive to bond investors and would significantly ease the burden of high sovereign debt yields, particularly in Portugal and Italy. Moreover, it would achieve this without adding further risky assets to the European Central Bank’s balance sheet and thereby transferring credit risk to Northern European countries. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Date: 2013
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