Shows
Duitsland VakantielandRheingau | Wijn, kunst en geschiedenis: een smaakvolle reis door het hart van RheingauIn deze aflevering van Duitsland Vakantieland trekken Ben Roelants en wijnkenner Jens De Maere naar het charmante Rheingau, een vergeten wijnparel aan de Rijn in deelstaat Hessen. Ze ontmoeten topwijnbouwster Caroline Weiler, die toont hoe de bodem het verschil maakt tussen minerale en exotische rieslings.In Rüdesheim ontdekken ze het ontstaan van alcoholvrije wijn, en in Hattenheim genieten ze van een perfecte wijnpairing met wienerschnitzel, begeleid door niemand minder dan Florian Richter, de beste sommelier van Duitsland.De reis brengt hen ook naar een kunstzinnige wijnkelder bij de Georg Müller Stiftung, waar wijn en...2025-07-0727 min
Macro Musings with David BeckworthJens van 't Klooster on Recent ECB Policy: A Paradigm Shift Without Legislative ChangeJens van 't Klooster is a political economist at the University of Amsterdam's Department of Political Science. Jens rejoins David on Macro Musings to discuss the changes taking place at the European Central Bank. Specifically, Jens and David talk about the ECB’s recent commitment to a gradual process of monetary tightening, the prospect and limitations of market neutrality in setting monetary policy, the rise of technocratic Keynesianism and questions surrounding the political legitimacy of the ECB’s recent policy decisions, as well as the politics surrounding the ECB’s approach to government debt. Take our lis...2022-05-021h 01
Macro Musings with David BeckworthJens Van’t Klooster on ECB Bond Purchasing and the Myth of Central Bank NeutralityJens Van’t Klooster is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven and is also a member of the research group, A New Normative Framework for Financial Debt at the University of Amsterdam. Jens has recently coauthored an article titled *The Myth of Market Neutrality: A Comparative Study of the European Central Bank’s and Swiss National Bank’s Corporate Security Purchases.* He joins Macro Musings to talk about this article and some of his other work on central bank purchases and what it may mean for the Fed’s purchase of corporate bonds. Transcript for the episo...2020-07-131h 00
Crash Course EconomicsCrisis, central banks and democratic control: the building blocks for changeSara Murawski en Rodrigo Fernandez speak with Jens van’t Klooster about crisis, central banks and democratic control.What are the historical origins of central bank independence? Why are central banks not fully embedded in a democratic decision-making structure? How can we regain democratic control?Casting the net wide: what would progressive monetary policies look like? What are the necessary ingredients?Jens van 't Klooster is a Research Foundation — Flanders postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven and member of the research group ‘A New Normative Framework for Financial Debt’ at the University of Amste...2020-06-161h 03
The Politics of EconomicsThe Politics of Economics - 2 June 2020 - Politics of Economics during COVID-19: The EU’s Technocratic Crisis ManagementThe politics of economics is a research network exploring how economics impacts the world. The seminar series brings different perspectives together to discuss tensions and contestations of economic knowledge in the context of policy, expertise and political movements.
In this session Jens van t'Klooster (KU Leuve) will be speaking about 'The EU's technocratic crisis management' in conversation with Raf Danna (Cambridge).
In this rapidly changing context, how are economists’ positions as experts changing? Will the COVID-19 pandemic upend economic orthodoxy? How does the lockdown affect politics and existing inequalities within the economics profession? How are these changes affecting the way ec...2020-06-121h 02