ECB and democratic accountability and transparency

Policy Brief

23/04/2015

A governance mechanism is needed to make ECB democratically accountable and transparent to the Eurozone citizens and companies regarding the allocative and distributive consequences of its massive QE policy. 

By Ismail Erturk. Senior Lecturer – PMO, Manchester Business School. University of Manchester. 

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