The Peterson Institute for International Economics holds an event to discuss recent proposals to create a common “safe asset” for the euro area, on March 23, 2018. Philip R. Lane, governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Peterson Institute for International Economics, present two recent major reports on why Europe’s lack of a common safe asset matters and how the problem might be solved without creating politically impossible mutual guarantees among member states. For more information, visit: piie.com/events/proposals-common-euro-area-safe-asset