Awardees of 2015: Benoît Coeuré

In 2015 the Lámfalussy Award was awarded to Benoît Coeuré, the Board Member of the European Central Bank.

In 2015 the Lámfalussy Award was awarded to Benoit Coeuré, the Board Member of the European Central Bank, former Deputy Director General of the French State Treasury and the former executive director of Agence France Trésor, an internationally acclaimed expert in economics. Within the European Central Bank Benoît Coeuré supervises the bank's market operations, the payment systems, the market infrastructure and economic research.

He explained several times that the economic situation that followed the outbreak of the latest crisis justifies the low level of the key ECB interest rate and in addition he also supports the unconventional measures of the ECB. At the same time he also pointed out the risks of the monetary policy responses given to the crisis.

Vissza a tetejére

The primary objective of the MNB shall be to achieve and maintain price stability. (...) Without prejudice to its primary objective, the MNB shall support the maintenance of the stability of the system of financial intermediation, the enhancement of its resilience, its sustainable contribution to economic growth; furthermore, the MNB shall support the government’s economic policy and its policy related to environmental sustainability, using instruments at its disposal.