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Rising sovereign spreads complicated the ECB’s planned monetary tightening in June 2022. Robin Brooks, Jonathan Fortun and Jonathan Pingle examine why a firm ceiling on peripheral borrowing spreads could imply unlimited bond purchases and conflict with constraints on monetary financing. They frame the challenge as containing debt market fragmentation without creating an open commitment to finance governments.
Abstract
Rising sovereign spreads complicated the ECB’s planned monetary tightening in June 2022. Robin Brooks, Jonathan Fortun and Jonathan Pingle examine why a firm ceiling on peripheral borrowing spreads could imply unlimited bond purchases and conflict with constraints on monetary financing. They frame the challenge as containing debt market fragmentation without creating an open commitment to finance governments.
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Robin Brooks, Jonathan Fortun, Jonathan Pingle (2022). Global Macro Views: The ECB and Periphery Spread Control. Institute of International Finance.