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144 – Peter Stella on Debt, Safe Assets, and Central Bank Operations

Feb 18, 2019

Peter Stella is the managing director of Stellar Consulting and was formerly an IMF official where he led the central banking and monetary and foreign exchange divisions. Peter has researched and written extensively on safe assets, collateral, and central banking operations, and he joins the show today to discuss this work.  David and Peter also discuss the Fed’s large scale asset purchases, money and payment systems in advanced economies, and why the U.S. Treasury should start issuing bills to the Fed.

 

Transcript for the episode: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/02182019/peter-stella-debt-safe-assets-and-central-bank-operations

 

Peter’s Voxeu profile: https://voxeu.org/users/peterstella0

Peter’s Research Gate archive: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Stella

 

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