Draghi effect

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Mario Draghi, 2012

The Draghi Effect describes the reaction of the financial markets to a statement made by Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank , in a free speech in London on July 26, 2012:

“Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough. "

“As part of our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever is necessary to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough. "

- Mario Draghi : Speech at the Global Investment Conference in London

The financial markets, unsettled by the euro crisis , then calmed down. They rightly expected that the ECB would buy up government bonds from crisis countries if necessary. The term is also common in English .

The words Draghi, especially his Whatever it takes , became a political catchphrase.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b The Draghi Effect: Reaction of the markets to the statements of the ECB boss - Deutschlandfunk , on July 27, 2012; u. a. also with "In the first reaction yesterday the markets went up significantly, but already today the picture was no longer so uniform."
  2. a b Verbatim of the remarks made by Mario Draghi (English) - ECB , on July 26, 2012
  3. ECB's Draghi to the euro's rescue? In: YouTube . euronews , July 26, 2012, accessed on February 3, 2020 (English, short report including a video recording of Draghi's statement).
  4. Dollar and Euro Diverge Thanks to Draghi Effect. In: The Wall Street Journal . November 27, 2015, accessed February 6, 2020 .