Can the ECB make negative rates work?

The ECB appears to have concluded that it can limit the adverse side-effects of imposing negative interest rates on commercial banks’ deposits. But even if this is the case, negative rates are not going to transform the economic outlook and potentially more effective policy steps are still off the agenda.

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