SUERF Policy Notes (SPNs) focus on current financial, monetary or economic issues, designed for policy makers and financial practitioners, authored by renowned experts.
SUERF Policy Briefs (SPBs) serve to promote SUERF Members’ economic views and research findings as well as economic policy-oriented analyses. They address topical issues and propose solutions to current economic and financial challenges.
| Date published | SUERF | Issue | Title | Author(s) |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 141 | Some warning signals about average inflation targeting | Seppo Honkapohja, Nigel McClung |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 139 | Consistent recovery and resolution of small and large banks in Europe | Anne Dyrberg Rommer, Louise Kleiner |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 137 | Euro area equity risk premia and monetary policy | Daniel Kapp, Kristian Loft Kristiansen |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 136 | What does “below, but close to, two per cent” mean? Assessing the ECB’s reaction function with real time data | Maritta Paloviita, Markus Haavio, Pirkka Jalasjoki, Juha Kilponen |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 135 | Liquidity in the German corporate bond market: has the CSPP made a difference? | Kathi Schlepper |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 133 | Evidence of a macroeconomic reversal rate | Paul Konietschke, Anna Samarina, Irina Stanga, Jan Willem van den End |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 131 | Investment funds, monetary policy, and the global financial cycle | Christoph Kaufmann |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 128 | Effects of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme on consumption risk sharing and production efficiency | Zeno Enders, David Vespermann |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 126 | Intergenerational macroeconomics | Gabriel Makhlouf |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 125 | Monetary policy surprises trigger different responses in the housing market across European regions | Winfried Koeniger, Benedikt Lennartz, Marc-Antoine Ramelet |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 121 | How climate protection adds to inflation | Jörg Krämer, Ralph Solveen |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 115 | Understanding the financial risks of nature loss: exploring policy options for financial authorities | Katie Kedward, Josh Ryan-Collins, Hugues Chenet |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 112 | Fund Cross-Holdings and Financial Stability | Daniel Fricke, Hannes Wilke |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 111 | A rising core lifts all baskets | Bruce Kasman, Joseph Lupton, Michael S Hanson |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 110 | Global vulnerabilities to the COVID-19 variant B.1.617.2 | David Mackie |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 109 | Quantifying bias and inaccuracy of upper-level aggregation in Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices for Germany and the euro area | By Thomas Knetsch, Julika Herzberg , Patrick Schwind and Sebastian Weinand |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 108 | Can central bank communication help to stabilise inflation expectations? | Alexander Jung, Patrick Kuehl |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 106 | What consumption habits tell us about the joint dynamics of government bond yields and stock prices internationally | Thomas Nitschka, Shajivan Satkurunathan |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 105 | Monetary policy space and monetary policy strategies for the euro area | Markus Haavio, Olli-Matti Laine |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 104 | The Economic Case for Global Vaccinations: An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks | Cem Çakmaklı, Selva Demiralp, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Sevcan Yeşiltaş, Muhammed A. Yıldırım |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Note | No 245 | A technical toolkit to monitor a pandemic outbreak from a central bank perspective | Alexie Alupoaiei, Csaba Bálint, Matei Kubinschi |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Note | No 244 | External Vulnerabilities and Exchange Rate Pass-Through: The Case of Emerging Markets | Abdullah Kazdal, Muhammed Hasan Yılmaz |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 102 | Assessing the impact of Basel III: Evidence from macroeconomic models | Olivier de Bandt, Bora Durdu, Hibiki Ichiue, Yasin Mimir, Jolan Mohimont, Kalin Nikolov, Sigrid Röhrs, Jean-Guillaume Sahuc, Valerio Scalone, Michael Straughan |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 101 | The interplay between green policy, electricity prices, financial constraints and jobs: firm-level evidence | Gert Bijnens, John Hutchinson, Jozef Konings, Arthur Saint Guilhem |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 99 | Stress-testing CESEE borrowers in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic | Aleksandra Riedl |
| May 2021 | Policy Note | No 241 | Digital Disruption: The Inevitable Rise of CBDC | Chetan Ahya, Derrick Kam, Julian Richers |
| May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 94 | Climate risks and collateral: a methodological experiment | Pierre-François Weber, Bünyamin Erkan, Antoine Oustry, Romain Svartzman |
| May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 92 | The pandemic year from a consumer behaviour perspective: The Slovak experience | Milan Gylanik, Viera Mrazikova and Roman Vrbovsky |
| May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 91 | Low Interest Rates and the Distribution of Household Debt | Marina Emiris, François Koulischer |
| May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 90 | SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies) | Mario Hübler, Jakob Hanzl, Christoph Prenner |
| May 2021 | Policy Note | No 235 | Negative Interest Rate Policy – The Experience So Far | Luis Brandao Marques, Marco Casiraghi, Gaston Gelos, Gunes Kamber, Roland Meeks |
| May 2021 | Policy Note | No 234 | Building-back-better after the Covid-19 crisis in Europe: The twin transition and divergence | Marco Buti, István P. Székely |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Note | No 233 | How should the COVID restrictions in England be eased? | David K. Miles, Adrian H Heald, Michael Stedman |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 82 | The banking supervisors dilemma: wearing many hats on one head | Sasin Kirakul, Jeffery Yong, Raihan Zamil |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 80 | Fed’s financial stability concerns and monetary policy | Klodiana Istrefi, Florens Odendahl, Giulia Sestieri |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 79 | A New Measure of Synthetic Leverage | Daniel Fricke |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 78 | Not all debt is bank debt: Nonbank borrowing in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe | Katharina Allinger, Elisabeth Beckmann |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 77 | Smoke and Mirrors: On cancelling public debts held by the Eurosystem | Jef Boeckx and Xavier Debrun |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 76 | The Impact of COVID-19 on European Banks | Shekhar Aiyar, Mai Chi Dao, Andreas A. Jobst, Aiko Mineshima, Srobona Mitra, Mahmood Pradhan |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 75 | Europe: the shock of Covid-19 and the fear of accelerated zombification | Hélène Baudchon, Louis Boisset, Guillaume Derrien, Kenza Charef |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 71 | CESEE’s Macroprudential Policy Response to Covid-19 | Markus Eller, Reiner Martin, Lukas Vashold |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 65 | EMU deepening and sovereign debt spreads: using political space to achieve policy space | Iván Kataryniuk, Víctor Mora-Bajén, Javier J. Pérez |
| Mar 2021 | Policy Brief | No 57 | Central bank communication with the general public: effective or not? | Nils Brouwer, Jakob de Haan |
| Mar 2021 | Policy Note | No 227 | Scarring in Europe | Reza Moghadam, Markus Guetschow, Camille White |
| Mar 2021 | Policy Note | No 226 | Greening the UK financial system – a fit for purpose approach | Yannis Dafermos, Daniela Gabor, Maria Nikolaidi, Frank van Lerven |
| Feb 2021 | Policy Note | No 225 | Sharing Economy in the Financial Industry: A Platform Approach towards Sharing in Regulatory Reporting using the Shapley Value | Aaron Janowski, Moritz Plenk, Mirko Haselwander |
| Feb 2021 | Policy Note | No 224 | Vaccination delay to cost Europe EUR90bn in 2021 | Ludovic Subran, Ana Boata, Patrick Krizan, Katharina Utermöhl |
| Feb 2021 | Policy Brief | No 47 | Banking Across Borders: Are Chinese Banks Different? | Eugenio Cerutti, Catherine Koch, Swapan-Kumar Pradhan |
| Feb 2021 | Policy Brief | No 46 | The crisis management framework for banks in the EU: what can be done with small and medium-sized banks? | Elke König |
| Feb 2021 | Policy Note | No 221 | The future of data collection & data management: Agile RegOps for digitalizing the regulatory value chain | Martina Drvar, Johannes Turner, Maciej Piechocki, Eric Stiegeler, Daniel Münch |
| Dec 2020 | Policy Note | No 214 | Is NGEU a game changer for the ECB’s role in fighting the fall-out from COVID-19 in the euro area? | Lukas Reiss, Maria Teresa Valderrama |
| Nov 2020 | Policy Brief | No 37 | In Support of Monetary Policy: Using the Countercyclical Capital Buffer to Avoid a Reversal Interest Rate | Matthieu Darracq Pariès, Christoffer Kok, Matthias Rottner |
| Nov 2020 | Policy Note | No 208 | The world economy under Covid-19: Can emerging market economies keep the engine running? | Kristel Buysse, Dennis Essers |
| Nov 2020 | Policy Note | No 206 | Cyber risk in the financial sector | Iñaki Aldasoro, Jon Frost, Leonardo Gambacorta, Thomas Leach, David Whyte |
| Oct 2020 | Policy Brief | No 34 | Cross-country differences in Europe’s second COVID wave | David Mackie |
| Oct 2020 | Policy Note | No 203 | Tracking Covid: What Worked? | Markus Guetschow |
| Oct 2020 | Policy Note | No 199 | Macroeconomic stabilisation when nominal interest rates are constrained: A role for household inflation expectations? | Geoff Kenny, Ioana Duca-Radu, Andreas Reuter |
| Oct 2020 | Policy Brief | No 33 | Update of the European Fiscal Monitor (September 2020) | Willem-Pieter de Groen, Inna Oliinyk |
| Oct 2020 | Policy Brief | No 31 | Monitoring economic activity in times of Covid-19: moving up to higher frequency | Barbara Castelletti, Marie Delorme, Pavel Diev, Yannick Kalantzis, Antoine Lalliard, Matteo Mogliani |
| Sep 2020 | Policy Note | No 196 | The Eurosystem collateral framework in 2018 and 2019 | Marco Corsi, Benjamin Hartung, Viktoriya Gocheva |
| Sep 2020 | Policy Note | No 194 | Home- and host-country prudential regulation and spillovers in dollar credit | Stefan Avdjiev, Bryan Hardy, Patrick McGuire, Goetz von Peter |
| Sep 2020 | Policy Note | No 191 | Are bank capital requirements optimally set? Evidence from researchers’ views | Gene Ambrocio, Iftekhar Hasan, Esa Jokivuolle, Kim Ristolainen |
| Aug 2020 | Policy Note | No 190 | Finland and monetary policy through three crises | Tuomas Välimäki and Meri Obstbaum |
| Aug 2020 | Policy Note | No 189 | Financial integration in the Nordic-Baltic region vis-à-vis the EU: A Swedish perspective | David Farelius, Stefan Ingves, Magnus Jonsson |
| Aug 2020 | Policy Note | No 186 | European Recovery Fund: Sceptics Q&A | Reza Moghadam, Jacob Nell, Joao Almeida, Bruna Skarica, Markus Guetschow |
| Aug 2020 | Policy Brief | No 22 | Radical Uncertainty | John Kay |
| Jul 2020 | Policy Brief | No 21 | How effective are bank levies in reducing leverage given the debt bias of corporate income taxation? | Franziska Bremus, Kirsten Schmidt, Lena Tonzer |
| Jul 2020 | Policy Note | No 185 | The Macroeconomic Impact of NPLs in Euro Area Countries | Ivan Huljak, Reiner Martin, Diego Moccero, Cosimo Pancaro |
| Jul 2020 | Policy Note | No 184 | Special Update of the European Fiscal Monitor | Willem-Pieter de Groen, Inna Oliinyk, Sander van Veldhuizen |
| Jul 2020 | Policy Note | No 182 | Europe’s answer to Libra – potential and prerequisites of a programmable euro | Andreas Krautscheid, Tobias Tenner, Siegfried Utzig |
| Jul 2020 | Policy Brief | No 19 | Banking between two crises | Karel Lannoo |
| Jul 2020 | Policy Brief | No 17 | Financial resilience of German households to Corona triggered income shock | Orcun Kaya |
| Jul 2020 | Policy Note | No 181 | A sensible fiscal policy for the sharp rise in government debt | Forrest Capie, Meyrick Chapman, Chris Marsh, Geoffrey Wood |
| Jun 2020 | Policy Brief | No 16 | Assessing the efficacy of COVID-19 tracing regimes | David Mackie |
| Jun 2020 | Policy Note | No 175 | Towards a wider international role for the euro | Francesco Papadia, Konstantinos Efstathiou |
| Jun 2020 | Policy Brief | No 13 | Keeping the COVID-19 R number below 1 as mobility rises | David Mackie |
| May 2020 | Policy Note | No 172 | Does the EU convergence machine still work and how will the Covid-19 crisis impact it? | Patrick Bisciari, Dennis Essers, Evelien Vincent |
| May 2020 | Policy Note | No 171 | US dollar funding markets during the Covid-19 crisis – the international dimension | Egemen Eren, Andreas Schrimpf, Vladyslav Sushko |
| May 2020 | Policy Note | No 167 | Services are the next – and fast approaching – frontier of global trade and financial services is a sector leading the way | Robert Koopman |
| May 2020 | Policy Note | No 165 | Monetary policy implications of digital currencies | Katrin Assenmacher |
| May 2020 | Policy Note | No 164 | Can we compare the COVID-19 and 2008 crises? | Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn |
| May 2020 | Policy Note | No 163 | Coronavirus and the world of work | Monika Kiss |
| May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 5 | An EU Recovery Fund: How to square the circle? | Kajus Hagelstam, Alice Zoppè, Cristina Sofia Dias |
| May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 6 | Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste! | Kai A. Konrad, Marcel Thum |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Brief | No 4 | How the economy will recover from the Corona shock | Jörg Krämer and Bernd Weidensteiner |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 160 | Interlinking Europe’s recovery plan and the next EU budget | Kevin Körner and Barbara Böttcher |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 156 | Navigation tools in the semi-normal corona era | Andy Langenkamp |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Brief | No 1 | Regulation, Corporate Culture and Individual Responsibility in Banking | David T Llewellyn |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 154 | The Prudent Algorithm Principle: A new paradigm for financial supervision | Jakob Thomä |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 153 | Passive Funds Actively Affect Prices: Evidence from the Largest ETF Markets | Karamfil Todorov |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 150 | How deep will it fall? Comparing the euro area recessions of 2020 and 2009 | Andreas Breitenfellner, Paul Ramskogler |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 147 | Does It Fit? Tweeting on Monetary Policy and Central Bank Communication | Donato Masciandaro, Davide Romelli, Gaia Rubera |
| Mar 2020 | Policy Note | No 144 | Euro Area Economics: Putting the OOH into HICP | Jacob Nell, Bruna Skarica, Joao Almeida, Markus Guetschow |
| Mar 2020 | Policy Note | No 142 | Are Standard Macro and Credit Policies Enough to Deal with the Economic Fallout from a Global Pandemic? A Proposal for a Negative SME Tax | Thomas Drechsel, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan |
| Mar 2020 | Policy Note | No 141 | Reforms, Reversals and the Road Ahead: Lessons from Three Decades of Transition in Central and Eastern Europe | Beata Javorcik |
| Mar 2020 | Policy Note | No 138 | Euro Area Economics: Greenflation? | Jacob Nell, Joao Almeida, Markus Guetschow |
| Mar 2020 | Policy Note | No 137 | R-star decline and monetary hysteresis | Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul |
| Feb 2020 | Policy Note | No 135 | Cost-Efficiency and Productivity of euro area banks | Ivan Huljak, Reiner Martin, Diego Moccero |
| Feb 2020 | Policy Note | No 133 | Making sure your bot colleague is less biased than you! | Frank De Jonghe |
| Feb 2020 | Policy Note | No 128 | Interests and alliances | Klaas Knot |
| Jan 2020 | Policy Note | No 126 | Bank resolution, the need to recognize reality in order to prepare for the next crisis | Jesper Berg, Henrik Bjerre-Nielsen |
| Jan 2020 | Policy Note | No 122 | TCFD: strengthening the foundations of sustainable finance | Mark Carney |
| Jan 2020 | Policy Note | No 121 | The quest for policy scope: Implications for monetary policy strategies | Klaas Knot |
| Dec 2019 | Policy Note | No 119 | Central bank independence and inflation | Ryszard Kokoszczyński, Joanna Mackiewicz-Łyziak |
| Dec 2019 | Policy Note | No 118 | Deposit facility rate, bank reserves, and portfolio reallocation incentives | Manuel Buchholz, Kirsten Schmidt, Lena Tonzer |
| Nov 2019 | Policy Note | No 116 | Following “Libra” German banks say: The economy needs a programmable digital euro | Andreas Krautscheid, Tobias Tenner, Siegfried Utzig |
| Nov 2019 | Policy Note | No 111 | Reforming the Stability and Growth Pact: Striving for sustainability while offering room for manoeuvre | Karsten Wendorff |
| Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 109 | The rise of central banks as sovereign debt holders: Implications for investor bases | Alvise Lennkh, Bernhard Bartels, Thibault Vasse |
| Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 108 | Libra – a view from Europe | Heike Mai |
| Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 107 | Tackling non-performing loans in Europe | Peter Grasmann, Markus Aspegren, Nicolas Willems |
| Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 104 | On Crypto Assets | Andrei Kirilenko |
| Aug 2019 | Policy Note | No 92 | Beliefs and Portfolios: New Measurement and Facts | Stefano Giglio, Matteo Maggiori, Johannes Stroebel, Stephen Utkus |
| Aug 2019 | Policy Note | No 91 | How to Make Capitalism Work for All? | Anita Angelovska Bezhoska |
| Aug 2019 | Policy Note | No 88 | Mitigating Fiscal Risks from the Financial Sector | Ludger Schuknecht |
| Jul 2019 | Policy Note | No 87 | Loan portfolio diversification in the euro area, capital requirements, and the European Banking Union | Esa Jokivuolle, Matti Virén |
| Jul 2019 | Policy Note | No 86 | Regulatory complexity and the quest for robust regulation | Prasanna Gai, Malcolm Kemp, Antonio Sánchez Serrano, Isabel Schnabel |
| Jul 2019 | Policy Note | No 84 | Main findings from a survey on the long-term impact of Brexit on the UK and EU economies | Patrick Bisciari |
| Jun 2019 | Policy Note | No 80 | A products and activities approach to managing risk in asset management | Barbara Novick |
| Jun 2019 | Policy Note | No 76 | Chinese foreign investment: a dangerous obsession or a new normal? Get ready for the latter! | Peter Havlik |
| May 2019 | Policy Note | No 74 | The future of the UK services trade post-Brexit: unlikely to be bright | Olga Pindyuk |
| May 2019 | Policy Note | No 72 | Analysing the Economics of BREXIT and World Trade | David T. Llewellyn |
| Apr 2019 | Policy Note | No 65 | A New Horizon | Mark Carney |
| Mar 2019 | Policy Note | No 60 | Fiscal Rules | Vitor Gaspar, David Amaglobeli |
| Jan 2019 | Policy Note | No 53 | The output cost of the global financial crisis: A reappraisal after ten years | David Turner, Patrice Ollivaud |
| Nov 2018 | Policy Note | No 47 | Regtech meets financial supervision: how climate scenario analysis by supervisors is ushering in a new regulatory paradigm | Jakob Thomä |
| Oct 2018 | Policy Note | No 45 | A plea for a paradigm shift in financial decision-making in the age of climate change and disruptive technologies | Angela Köppl, Sigrid Stagl |
| Oct 2018 | Policy Note | No 43 | A Green Supporting Factor — The Right Policy? | Jacob Dankert, Lars van Doorn, Henk Jan Reinders, Olaf Sleijpen |
| Jul 2018 | Policy Note | No 39 | Green bond finance and certification | Torsten Ehlers, Frank Packer |
| Mar 2018 | Policy Note | No 29 | European Monetary Union reform preferences of French and German parliamentarians | Sebastian Blesse, Pierre C. Boyer, Friedrich Heinemann, Eckhard Janeba, Anasuya Raj |
| Feb 2018 | Policy Note | No 26 | Comparability of Basel risk weights in the EU banking sector | Zsofia Döme, Stefan Kerbl |
| Nov 2017 | Policy Note | No 21 | Risk sharing in EMU: key insights from a literature review | Demosthenes Ioannou, David Schäfer |
| Jul 2017 | Policy Note | No 14 | Banks or platforms: The digital future | Patricia Jackson |
| Jun 2017 | Policy Note | No 13 | The political economy of central banking in the digital age | Sir Paul Tucker |
| May 2016 | Policy Note | No 7 | Ten Myths in the Brexit Debate | David T. Llewellyn |
| Feb 2016 | Policy Note | No 4 | Gender diversity and monetary policy | Donato Masciandaro, Paola Profeta, Davide Romelli |
