Giovanni Bonfanti
is a Ph.D. candidate at the Economics Department of Columbia University. He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University. He worked for the European Commission and for the Bank of Italy. His research focuses on international finance, international macroeconomics, and European integration. In 2023 he discussed the performance of common EU debt in front of the Committee on Budgets of the European Parliament.
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Do financial markets consider European common debt a safe asset?
The interest rate on European Union bonds is now almost as high as that of supposedly riskier Spanish bonds; this risks defeating their purpose.