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SUERF Policy Notes and SUERF Policy Briefs

SUERF Policy Notes & Briefs offer accessible and concise, high-quality, authoritative and informed analysis on topical issues related to European money and finance. They make research by SUERF Member institutions and academic researchers available to the SUERF network and beyond. SUERF Policy Notes & Briefs are published weekly on the SUERF webpage. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the institution(s) the author(s) is/are affiliated with.

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Date publishedSUERFIssueTitleAuthor(s)
Nov 2023Policy BriefNo 751Assessing the liquidity premium in the Italian bond marketMaria Ludovica Drudi, Giulio Carlo Venturi
Nov 2023Policy BriefNo 746When banks’ shadow fades and shadow banking rises: Securitization and loan performance in ChinaDi Gong, Jin Wu, Jigao Zhu
Nov 2023Policy BriefNo 743Impact assessment of high inflation on Greek public finances. Does the type of inflation matter? Evidence from a highly indebted countrySophia Lazaretou, George Palaiodimos
Nov 2023Policy BriefNo 728Firm leverage and the low-carbon transition in EuropeOlimpia Carradori, Margherita Giuzio, Sujit Kapadia, Dilyara Salakhova, Katia Vozian
Nov 2023Policy BriefNo 727Labour at riskVasco Botelho, Claudia Foroni, Andrea Renzetti
Nov 2023Policy BriefNo 718Policy Insights from ICT Trade: Exploring the Influence of Regulatory ConvergenceMahdi Ghodsi
Oct 2023Policy BriefNo 704Is climate policy risk priced in by European stock investors?Philippe Loyson, Rianne Luijendijk, Sweder van Wijnbergen
Oct 2023Policy BriefNo 702A two-tier system of minimum reserve requirements by De Grauwe and Ji (2023): A closer lookClaudia Kwapil
Oct 2023Policy BriefNo 694The external financial spillovers of CBDCsAlessandro Moro, Valerio Nispi Landi
Sep 2023Policy BriefNo 689An Unconventional FX Tail Risk StoryCarlos Cañon, Eddie Gerba, Alberto Pambira, Evarist Stoja
Sep 2023Policy BriefNo 681To use or not to use? Capital buffers and lending during a crisisVítor Oliveira, Diogo Serra
Aug 2023Policy BriefNo 672Explaining the endurance of price level differences in the euro areaHuw Dixon, Pavlos Petroulas, Theodora Kosma
Aug 2023Policy BriefNo 661Forecasting banknote circulation during the COVID-19 pandemic using structural time series modelsNikolaus Bartzsch, Marco Brandi, Lucas Devigne, Raymond de Pastor, Gianluca Maddaloni, Diana Posada Restrepo, Gabriele Sene
Aug 2023Policy BriefNo 657The climate change challenge and fiscal instruments and policies in the EUAris Avgousti, Francesco Caprioli, Giacomo Caracciolo, Marion Cochard, Pietro Dallari, Mar Delgado-Téllez, João Domingues, Marien Ferdinandusse, Daniela Filip, Carolin Nerlich, Doris Prammer, Katja Schmidt, Anastasia Theofilakou
Jul 2023Policy BriefNo 637How the central bank collateral framework shapes the outcomes of liquidity stress test modelsAngelo Cuzzola, Claudio Barbieri, Ulrich Bindseil
Jul 2023Policy BriefNo 632When Do Credit Booms Become Troublesome?Eddie Gerba, Danilo Leiva-León, Johannes Poeschl
Jun 2023Policy BriefNo 624CCP initial margin models: A peek under the hoodIsmael Alexander Boudiaf, Martin Scheicher, Francesco Vacirca
Jun 2023Policy BriefNo 619Does Green Transition promote Green Innovation and Technological Acquisitions?Udichibarna Bose, Wildmer Daniel Gregori, Maria Martinez Cillero
Jun 2023Policy BriefNo 612Digital Euro: An assessment of the first two progress reportsDirk Niepelt
Jun 2023Policy NoteNo 312Empowering central bank money for a digital futureMartin Diehl, Constantin Drott
May 2023Policy NoteNo 311Getting up from the floorClaudio Borio
May 2023Policy BriefNo 584Euro Area inflation differentials: the role of fiscal policies revisitedCristina Checherita-Westphal, Nadine Leiner-Killinger, Teresa Schildmann
May 2023Policy BriefNo 582Critical metals for the low-carbon transition: macro-financial issuesStéphane Dees, Simon Dikau, Hugh Miller, Romain Svartzman
May 2023Policy BriefNo 578The effectiveness of green collateral policy as an instrument of climate policyFrancesco Giovanardi, Matthias Kaldorf, Lucas Radke, Florian Wicknig
Apr 2023Policy BriefNo 576Monetary policy and the drifting natural rate of interestSandra Daudignon, Oreste Tristani
Apr 2023Policy BriefNo 572House prices and ultra-low interest rates: Exploring the non-linear nexusDaniel Dieckelmann, Hannah S. Hempell, Barbara Jarmulska, Jan Hannes Lang, Marek Rusnák
Apr 2023Policy BriefNo 569Window dressing of Regulatory Metrics: Evidence from Repo MarketsClaudio Bassi, Markus Behn, Michael Grill, Martin Waibel
Apr 2023Policy BriefNo 568Exploring labour market tightness and its implications: a case study for SloveniaMojca Lindič
Apr 2023Policy BriefNo 563Regulators as Risk Managers: Macroprudential Policy through a Risk Management LensDaniel Dimitrov, Sweder van Wijnbergen
Apr 2023Policy BriefNo 561Leaning against the Global Financial CycleAndrea Ferrero, Maurizio Michael Habib, Livio Stracca, Fabrizio Venditti
Apr 2023Policy BriefNo 559Will the Green Transition Be Inflationary? Expectations MatterAlessandro Ferrari, Valerio Nispi Landi
Mar 2023Policy BriefNo 546Bank lending to small firms: metamorphosis of a financing modelPaolo Finaldi Russo, Valentina Nigro, Sabrina Pastorelli
Feb 2023Policy BriefNo 520Measuring the Optimum Currency Area properties of the euro area over its 20 years’ historyDavor Kunovac, Diego Rodriguez Palenzuela, Yiqiao Sun
Feb 2023Policy BriefNo 519Borrower-based regulations push housing demand towards the suburbsRikke Rhode Nissen, Alessandro Tang-Andersen Martinello, Simon Juul Hviid, Christian Sinding Bentzen
Feb 2023Policy BriefNo 517Stock Return Predictability: Comparing Macro- and Micro-ApproachesArthur Stalla-Bourdillon
Jan 2023Policy BriefNo 507Joint Ownership of Production Projects as a Commitment Device against Interest Groups Nicoletta Berardi, Paul Seabright
Jan 2023Policy BriefNo 501Going native? How crypto technology may help regulatorsClaudia Biancotti
Dec 2022Policy BriefNo 489The impact of portfolio-based green monetary policy Raphael Abiry, Marien Ferdinandusse, Alexander Ludwig, Carolin Nerlich
Dec 2022Policy BriefNo 487Pricing of green bonds – drivers and dynamics of the greeniumAllegra Pietsch, Dilyara Salakhova
Dec 2022Policy BriefNo 486How do borrowers adjust in a household foreign currency debt crisis?Győző Gyöngyösi, Judit Rariga, Emil Verner
Dec 2022Policy BriefNo 484Monetary and macroprudential policy effectiveness and spilloversLuc Laeven, Angela Maddaloni, Caterina Mendicino
Nov 2022Policy BriefNo 474Cost efficiency in the euro area banking sector and the negative interest rate environmentGiuseppe Avignone, Claudia Girardone, Cosimo Pancaro, Livia Pancotto, Alessio Reghezza
Nov 2022Policy BriefNo 463Country Characteristics and Institutions as Significant Factor in Global Value Chain IntegrationMojca Lindič
Nov 2022Policy BriefNo 461Dual interest rates and the transmission of monetary policyFrancesca Barbiero, Lorenzo Burlon, Maria Dimou, Jan Toczynski
Oct 2022Policy BriefNo 444How do central bank lending operations interact with equity offering announcements?Massimo Giuliodori, Jan Kakes, Dimitris Mokas
Oct 2022Policy BriefNo 440Forced migration and food crisesFederico Carril-Caccia, Jordi Paniagua, Marta Suárez-Varela
Sep 2022Policy BriefNo 432Objectified Housing Sales and Rent Prices in Representative Household Surveys: the Impact on Macroeconomic StatisticsM. Denisa Naidin, Sofie R. Waltl, Michael H. Ziegelmeyer
Sep 2022Policy BriefNo 430Central bank capitalPaul Wessels, Dirk Broeders
Sep 2022Policy BriefNo 424Information Transmission between Banks and the Market for Corporate ControlChristian Bittner, Falko Fecht, Melissa Pala, Farzad Saidi
Sep 2022Policy BriefNo 421Nothing spreads like technology: Digitalisation and its Interaction with Institutions and GovernanceClaudio Baccianti, Vincent Labhard, Jonne Lehtimäki
Sep 2022Policy BriefNo 414The effects of Monetary Policy on Capital Flows: A Meta-AnalysisMauricio Villamizar-Villegas, Lucía Arango-Lozano, Geraldine Castelblanco-Arias, Nicolás Fajardo-Baquero, María A. Ruiz-Sánchez
Sep 2022Policy BriefNo 412Natural Gas in Europe: The Potential Impact of Disruptions to SupplyGabriel Di Bella, Mark Flanagan, Karim Foda, Andrea Pescatori, Alex Pienkowski, Martin Stuermer, Frederik Toscani
Sep 2022Policy BriefNo 409A model of system-wide stress simulation: market-based finance and the COVID-19 event Giovanni di Iasio, Giulio Nicoletti, Nicholas Vause
Aug 2022Policy BriefNo 406Sustainable finance data for central banks: a new Irving Fisher Committee survey Merve Artman, Pierre Bui Quang, Nadia Esham, Nur Izzati, Leah Kling, David Nefzi, Romana Peronaci, Christine Schlitzer, Christian Schmieder, Ömer Kayhan Seyhun, Bruno Tissot, Elena Triebskorn, Huiming Yang
Aug 2022Policy BriefNo 404Entity-based vs activity-based regulation: a framework and applications to traditional financial firms and big techsClaudio Borio, Stijn Claessens, Nikola Tarashev
Aug 2022Policy BriefNo 397Unbalanced macroeconomic risks over the business cycleMartin Iseringhausen, Ivan Petrella, Konstantinos Theodoridis
Jul 2022Policy BriefNo 383Measuring the engagement in climate-related financial policymaking: the climate-related financial policy indexPaola D’Orazio
Jul 2022Policy BriefNo 372Toward a green economy: the role of central bank’s asset purchasesAlessandro Ferrari, Valerio Nispi Landi
Jul 2022Policy BriefNo 368Inflation Expectations and Climate ConcernChristoph Meinerding, Andrea Poinelli, Yves Schüler
Jun 2022Policy NoteNo 283Sanctions in the context of Russia’s invasion of UkraineCristina Sofia Dias, Kristina Grigaitė, Marcel Magnus
May 2022Policy BriefNo 326The impact of QE on sovereign riskDirk Broeders, Leo de Haan, Jan Willem van den End
Apr 2022Policy BriefNo 322Trends in Monetary Policy Transparency Around the WorldNergiz Dincer, Barry Eichengreen, Petra Geraats
Apr 2022Policy BriefNo 309The low-carbon transition, climate commitments and firm credit riskSante Carbone, Margherita Giuzio, Sujit Kapadia, Johannes Sebastian Krämer, Ken Nyholm, Katia Vozian
Mar 2022Policy BriefNo 306ECB Communication and its Impact on Financial MarketsKlodiana Istrefi, Florens Odendahl, Giulia Sestieri
Mar 2022Policy BriefNo 303Rising rent burdens following distorting investment incentives – The effects of rent controls in GermanyVera Baye, Valeriya Dinger
Mar 2022Policy BriefNo 299When domestic and foreign QE overlapPaola Di Casola, Pär Stockhammar
Feb 2022Policy BriefNo 269Recovery as a springboard for changeDebora Revoltella, Tessa Bending, Atanas Kolev
Jan 2022Policy BriefNo 264Why disinflation can be more costly in a small open economy than in a closed economyOleksandr Faryna, Magnus Jonsson, Nadiia Shapovalenko
Jan 2022Policy BriefNo 255Climate actions and macro-financial stability: The role of central banksFrancesca Diluiso, Barbara Annicchiarico, Matthias Kalkuhl, Jan. C. Minx
Dec 2021Policy BriefNo 254What explains the emergence and diffusion of climate-related financial policies in G20 countries?Paola D’Orazio
Dec 2021Policy BriefNo 252Determinants of the credit cycle: a flow analysis of the extensive marginVincenzo Cuciniello, Nicola di Iasio
Dec 2021Policy BriefNo 248Africa and COVID-19: Can the financial sector stay on course for a green and digital future?Debora Revoltella, Claudio Cali, Barbara Marchitto, Nina Fenton, Ricardo Santos
Nov 2021Policy BriefNo 223A taxonomy of sustainable finance taxonomiesTorsten Ehlers, Diwen Gao, Frank Packer
Oct 2021Policy BriefNo 211Technical barriers to trade play the most important role in trade of goods in information and communications technologyMahdi Ghodsi
Oct 2021Policy BriefNo 194The impact of COVID-19 on analysts’ sentiment about the banking sectorAlicia Aguilar, Diego Torres
Oct 2021Policy BriefNo 193The effect of Eurosystem asset purchase programmes on euro area sovereign bond yields during the COVID-19 pandemicGeorge Hondroyiannis, Dimitrios Papaoikonomou
Sep 2021Policy BriefNo 187Can policy boost the international role of currencies? Lessons from international trade invoicingGeorgios Georgiadis, Helena Le Mezo, Arnaud Mehl, Cédric Tille
Sep 2021Policy BriefNo 186Prudential responses to COVID-19 in G20 countries: a missed opportunity to enhance "green" financial policy and regulations?Paola D’Orazio
Sep 2021Policy NoteNo 255Navigating by r*: safe or hazardous?Claudio Borio
Sep 2021Policy BriefNo 181A liquidity risk early warning indicator for Italian banks: a machine learning approachMaria Ludovica Drudi, Stefano Nobili
Sep 2021Policy BriefNo 175The Liquidity of the Government Bond Market – What Impact Does Quantitative Easing Have? Evidence from SwedenMarianna Blix Grimaldi, Alberto Crosta, Dong Zhang
Sep 2021Policy BriefNo 172Central banks as bank supervisors: how does this double role affect their inflation outcomes?Vasco Gabriel, Ioannis Lazopoulos, Diana Lima
Sep 2021Policy BriefNo 170Pension funds’ portfolio choices and investment beliefsDirk Broeders, Kristy Jansen
Aug 2021Policy BriefNo 165Assessment of the effectiveness of the macroprudential measures implemented in the context of the Covid-19 pandemicLucas Avezum, Vítor Oliveira, Diogo Serra
Aug 2021Policy BriefNo 159On the Effectiveness of Macroprudential PolicyMiguel Ampudia, Marco Lo Duca, Mátyás Farkas, Gabriel Perez Quiros, Mara Pirovano, Gerhard Rünstler, Eugen Tereanu
Aug 2021Policy BriefNo 142Consumption patterns in Italy during COVID-19Elisa Guglielminetti and Concetta Rondinelli
Jul 2021Policy BriefNo 129Nearshoring Perspectives after COVID-19: Can Western Balkans Benefit?Branimir Jovanovic, Mahdi Ghodsi
Jul 2021Policy BriefNo 127Women and Monetary PolicyPaola Profeta
Jul 2021Policy BriefNo 125Monetary policy surprises trigger different responses in the housing market across European regionsWinfried Koeniger, Benedikt Lennartz, Marc-Antoine Ramelet
Jul 2021Policy BriefNo 120What is the true resilience of our financial systems to climate change with the buffers we currently have?Alejandro Díaz de León
Jun 2021Policy NoteNo 246Integrated policy frameworks: The constraints of policy horizons and adjustment frequenciesClaudio Borio and Piti Disyatat
Jun 2021Policy NoteNo 243What does research say about the effects of central bank balance sheet policies?Paola Di Casola
May 2021Policy NoteNo 238Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Privileged powers, entwined responsibilitiesClaudio Borio and Piti Disyatat
May 2021Policy BriefNo 84Data sharing for better policy makingClaudia Buch
Apr 2021Policy BriefNo 80Fed’s financial stability concerns and monetary policyKlodiana Istrefi, Florens Odendahl, Giulia Sestieri
Mar 2021Policy BriefNo 59Whatever it takes to save the planet? Central banks and unconventional green policyAlessandro Ferrari, Valerio Nispi Landi
Mar 2021Policy BriefNo 54Are lower bank capital requirements an efficient policy tool for supporting credit to SMEs?Michel Dietsch, Henri Fraisse, Mathias Lé, Sandrine Lecarpentier
Mar 2021Policy NoteNo 226Greening the UK financial system – a fit for purpose approachYannis Dafermos, Daniela Gabor, Maria Nikolaidi, Frank van Lerven
Feb 2021Policy NoteNo 223Bank stress tests: their philosophy and their use by prudential authorities during the Covid-19 crisisValère Fourel, Julien Idier, Valerio Scalone, Aurore Schilte
Jan 2021Policy BriefNo 41Is inflation dead or hibernating?Claudio Borio
Jan 2021Policy NoteNo 217The post-COVID-19 recovery: what challenges and roadmap for the banking industry?Jordi Gual
Oct 2020Policy BriefNo 31Monitoring economic activity in times of Covid-19: moving up to higher frequencyBarbara Castelletti, Marie Delorme, Pavel Diev, Yannick Kalantzis, Antoine Lalliard, Matteo Mogliani
Jul 2020Policy NoteNo 185The Macroeconomic Impact of NPLs in Euro Area CountriesIvan Huljak, Reiner Martin, Diego Moccero, Cosimo Pancaro
Jul 2020Policy BriefNo 20How firms are adapting to the lockdown: insights from text miningMathilde Gerardin, Martial Ranvier
Jun 2020Policy NoteNo 175Towards a wider international role for the euroFrancesco Papadia, Konstantinos Efstathiou
May 2020Policy BriefNo 5An EU Recovery Fund: How to square the circle?Kajus Hagelstam, Alice Zoppè, Cristina Sofia Dias
Feb 2020Policy NoteNo 135Cost-Efficiency and Productivity of euro area banksIvan Huljak, Reiner Martin, Diego Moccero
Nov 2019Policy NoteNo 114Central Banking in challenging timesClaudio Borio
Feb 2019Policy NoteNo 57Creating an enabling environment for innovation and digitalisationDebora Revoltella, Tim Bending, Christoph Weiss, Philipp-Bastian Brutscher
Dec 2018Policy NoteNo 49Bank business models: time to actRudi Vander Vennet
Nov 2018Policy NoteNo 46Global financial vulnerabilities: Get ready for a bumpy rideClaudio Borio
Sep 2018Policy NoteNo 42Preserving regulatory certainty: The review of insurers’ capital requirementsGabriel Bernardino
Jun 2018Policy NoteNo 37A solid common landing ground for EMUJeroen Dijsselbloem
Feb 2016Policy NoteNo 4Gender diversity and monetary policyDonato Masciandaro, Paola Profeta, Davide Romelli

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