After 6 years of economic slowdown: The European Central Bank finally prepares for expansionary monetary policy!

1. Policy failure of the ECB Measured by the deviation of actual GDP from its long-run trend, the economic slowdown in the European Monetary Union (EMU) has begun with the emergence of the Great Recession by the end of the year 2008. (Figure 1). Given this background, it is astonishing, that the monetary policy of…