# Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh's work on European Safe Bonds is referenced

1 Faculty News August 11, 2017 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/06917b7a-7ea1-11e7-ab01-a13271d1ee9c) -- "European safe bonds were first proposed by a group of European economists in 2011. In May this year a European Commission paper advocated the creation of a market for the debt, which could generate bonds with varying levels of risk."

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