Jens van ‘t Klooster
Despite anticipated curtailment of their powers, the past decade saw technocratic actors take on an increasingly powerful role in economic governance.
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Technocratic Keynesianism: a paradigm shift without legislative change”
Jens van ‘t Klooster
This chapter provides an overview of the state of the art in constitutional theory with regard to the topic of central banks.
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Central Banks”
Contributors: Annelise Riles, Marco Goldoni, Joana Mendes, Jens van't Klooster, Brigitte Young, Jamee Moudud, Jeremy Leaman, Sebastian Diessner, Agnieszka Smolenska and Will Bateman
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Monetary Policy in the European Union”
January 18, 2021
Jens van't Klooster, KU Leuven
The European Central Bank is not in an easy spot. It is expected to do much more than before 2008, but also stay within a mandate conceived in the 1980s.
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The ECB, the climate and the interpretation of “price stability””
Contributors: Katharina Pistor, James McAndrews, Saule Omarova, Mark Blyth, Jamee Moudud, Elham Saeidinezhad, Dan Awrey, Fadhel Kaboub, Leah Downey, Virginia France, Lev Menand, Nadav Orian Peer, Robert Hockett, Carolyn Sissoko, Jens van 't Klooster, Oscar Perry Abello, and Gerald Epstein
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Special Edition: Money in the Time of Coronavirus”
March 31, 2020
Jens van ‘t Klooster, KU Leuven and University of Amsterdam
Commentators have raised various concerns over provisions in the $2 trillion US stimulus bill that assign $454
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J. van ‘t Klooster, Why the US Congress Gives Dollars to the Fed”