SUERF Policy Notes and SUERF Policy Briefs
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| Date published | SUERF | Issue | Title | Author(s) |
| Jan 2023 | Policy Brief | No 511 | Eurozone Government Bond Spreads: A Tale of Different ECB Policy Regimes | Sylvester C W Eijffinger, Mary Pieterse-Bloem |
| Jan 2023 | Policy Note | No 295 | The interplay between too big to fail policies and why it matters | André Ebner, Christiane Westhoff |
| Dec 2022 | Policy Note | No 294 | A modern credit guidance regime for the green transition | Katie Kedward, Daniela Gabor, Josh Ryan-Collins |
| Dec 2022 | Policy Note | No 293 | The EU macroprudential review should prioritize removing regulatory overlaps and increasing the flexibility of the CCyB | Stefan W. Schmitz, Michaela Posch, Peter Strobl |
| Dec 2022 | Policy Brief | No 497 | European Small Business Finance Outlook: SMEs in between crises | Helmut Kraemer-Eis, Antonia Botsari, Salome Gvetadze, Frank Lang, Wouter Torfs |
| Dec 2022 | Policy Brief | No 494 | Introducing Green Bank Equity to fund the low-carbon transition | Aaron Janowski |
| Dec 2022 | Policy Brief | No 489 | The impact of portfolio-based green monetary policy | Raphael Abiry, Marien Ferdinandusse, Alexander Ludwig, Carolin Nerlich |
| Dec 2022 | Policy Brief | No 485 | Dynamic Macroeconomic Implications of Immigration | Conny Olovsson, Karl Walentin, Andreas Westermark |
| Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 478 | The surprisingly untapped potential of reallocation of economic activity to reduce carbon emissions | Gert Bijnens, Carine Swartenbroekx |
| Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 477 | Foreign demand shocks to production networks: Firm responses and worker impacts | Emmanuel Dhyne, Ken Kikkawa, Toshiaki Komatsu, Magne Mogstad, Felix Tintelnot |
| Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 472 | (R-)Star gazing: Macro drivers suggest real neutral rate may have risen | Matthew Luzzetti, Brett Ryan, Justin Weidner, Amy Yang |
| Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 469 | The safe asset potential of EU-issued bonds | Tilman Bletzinger, William Greif, Bernd Schwaab |
| Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 466 | Price-at-risk: systemic risk from price-impact induced contagion | Gábor Fukker, Michiel Kaijser, Luca Mingarelli, Matthias Sydow |
| Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 464 | Less Bank Failures Before Presidential Elections in Russia | Zuzana Fungáčová, Alexei Karas, Laura Solanko, Laurent Weill |
| Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 462 | Disclosure of climate change risks in credit ratings | Miriam Breitenstein, Stefania Ciummo, Florian Walch |
| Oct 2022 | Policy Brief | No 456 | Digital players vs. traditional banks: Fierce competition, higher concentration or a trend towards platformization? | Laurent Clerc, Timothée Dufour, Pierre Harguindeguy, Stefano Ungaro |
| Oct 2022 | Policy Brief | No 453 | Under-researched areas of CBDC | Shalva Mkhatrishvili, Wim Boonstra |
| Oct 2022 | Policy Brief | No 452 | Are governments inflating their economic forecasts ahead of elections? | Davide Cipullo, André Reslow |
| Oct 2022 | Policy Brief | No 438 | Instinctive and reflective trust in the European Central Bank | Siria Angino, Stefania Secola |
| Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 432 | Objectified Housing Sales and Rent Prices in Representative Household Surveys: the Impact on Macroeconomic Statistics | M. Denisa Naidin, Sofie R. Waltl, Michael H. Ziegelmeyer |
| Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 431 | Consumer Inflation Expectations and Regional Price Changes | Tomasz Łyziak, Michael Pedersen, Ewa Stanisławska |
| Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 430 | Central bank capital | Paul Wessels, Dirk Broeders |
| Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 420 | Smart or Smash? The Effect of Financial Sanctions on Trade in Goods and Services | Tibor Besedeš, Stefan Goldbach, Volker Nitsch |
| Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 418 | The Kiel Trade Indicator – A real-time indicator for trade flows | Wolfgang Lechthaler, Vincent Stamer |
| Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 416 | The rise of cross-border financial centres | Pamela Pogliani, Philip Wooldridge |
| Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 412 | Natural Gas in Europe: The Potential Impact of Disruptions to Supply | Gabriel Di Bella, Mark Flanagan, Karim Foda, Andrea Pescatori, Alex Pienkowski, Martin Stuermer, Frederik Toscani |
| Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 411 | Subjective Expectations and Uncertainty | Andrzej Kocięcki, Tomasz Łyziak, Ewa Stanisławska |
| Aug 2022 | Policy Note | No 284 | The design of a data governance system | Siddharth Tiwari, Sharad Sharma, Siddharth Shetty, Frank Packer |
| Aug 2022 | Policy Brief | No 396 | The pass-through from inflation perceptions to inflation expectations | Stefanie J. Huber, Daria Minina, Tobias Schmidt |
| Jul 2022 | Policy Brief | No 379 | Firms’ Inflation Expectations: New Evidence from France | Olivier Coibion, Erwan Gautier, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Frédérique Savignac |
| Jul 2022 | Policy Brief | No 365 | Subjective inflation expectations of households and firms | Michael Weber |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 359 | Scarring effects of major economic downturns: The role of fiscal policy and government investment | Martin Larch, Peter Claeys, Wouter van der Wielen |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 357 | What tax data can tell us about consumption and saving patterns | Alain Galli, Rina Rosenblatt-Wisch |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 356 | How much is too much? Assessing the non-linear relationship between debt and sovereign creditworthiness | Sanne Zwart |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Note | No 282 | Trade and Climate – The Disrupted Nexus | Stefan P. Schleicher |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 349 | How does financial openness affect inequality? | Stefan Avdjiev, Tsvetana Spasova |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 347 | Sectoral exchange rate pass-through in the euro area | Chiara Osbat, Yiqiao Sun, Martin Wagner |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 346 | How do firms respond to demand and supply shocks? | Michał Gradzewicz |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 344 | Elections Hinder Firms’ Access to Credit | Florian Léon, Laurent Weill |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 341 | Economic adjustment in the euro area and the United States during the COVID-19 crisis | Mirko Licchetta, Giovanni Mattozzi, Rafal Raciborski, Rupert Willis |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Note | No 280 | Should the ECB consider issuing its own securities? | Wim Boonstra, Bas van Geffen |
| May 2022 | Policy Brief | No 338 | Mortgage debt relief after economic shocks: lessons from the pandemic | Edward Gaffney, Fergal McCann, Johannes Stroebel |
| May 2022 | Policy Brief | No 336 | Business resilience in the pandemic and beyond: Adaptation, innovation, financing and climate action from Eastern Europe to Central Asia | Luca Gattini, Rozália Pál, Helena Schweiger, Laura Valderrama |
| May 2022 | Policy Brief | No 326 | The impact of QE on sovereign risk | Dirk Broeders, Leo de Haan, Jan Willem van den End |
| May 2022 | Policy Brief | No 325 | Climate Change and Individual Behavior | René Bernard, Panagiota Tzamourani, Michael Weber |
| Apr 2022 | Policy Brief | No 323 | Is Super-Active Fiscal Policy Desirable? | Roberto M. Billi, Carl E. Walsh |
| Apr 2022 | Policy Brief | No 321 | Would a retail CBDC achieve its intended purpose? | Romain Baeriswyl, Samuel Reynard, Alexandre Swoboda |
| Apr 2022 | Policy Note | No 275 | Balancing public and private interests: Crypto, stablecoin and central bank digital currency | Wilko Bolt, Vera Lubbersen, Peter Wierts |
| Apr 2022 | Policy Brief | No 308 | Investor demand in syndicated bond issuances: stylised facts | Martin Hillebrand, Marko Mravlak, Peter Schwendner |
| Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 300 | Household saving and fiscal policy: Evidence for the euro area from a thick modelling perspective | Cristina Checherita-Westphal, Marcel Stechert |
| Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 270 | Will the supply-driven oil price shock unanchor inflation expectations? | Matthew Luzzetti, Brett Ryan, Justin Weidner, Amy Yang |
| Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 269 | CBDC and the international position of the euro | Wim Boonstra |
| Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 267 | Towards a single operational indicator in the SGP – A look at the properties of the current expenditure benchmark | Nicholai Benalal, Maximilian Freier, Wim Melyn, Stefan Van Parys, Lukas Reiss |
| Dec 2021 | Policy Note | No 259 | Crises as a catalyst for change – lessons from the past, challenges for the future | Jens Weidmann |
| Dec 2021 | Policy Brief | No 240 | The European CBAM as a first step towards a globally coordinated climate policy | Daniel Römer, Milena Schwarz |
| Dec 2021 | Policy Note | No 258 | The importance of Private Equity and Venture Capital financing for Greentech companies in Europe | Helmut Kraemer-Eis, Antonia Botsari, Salome Gvetadze, Frank Lang, Wouter Torfs |
| Dec 2021 | Policy Brief | No 236 | How to steer interest rates in negative territory? An analysis of reserve tiering and interbank market activity | Lucas Marc Fuhrer, Matthias Jüttner, Jan Wrampelmeyer, Matthias Zwicker |
| Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 232 | Central banks on social media – the reception of ECB communication among experts and non-experts on Twitter | Michael Ehrmann, Alena Wabitsch |
| Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 230 | Temporary panic or fundamental change in payment habits in Europe? Lesson from COVID-19 pandemic shift towards cashless payments | Michal Polasik, Radoslaw Kotkowski |
| Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 229 | Earnings expectations signal a heterogenous recovery after COVID-19 | Joost Bats, William Greif, Daniel Kapp |
| Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 226 | Benefits of internationalisation for acquirers and targets – but unevenly distributed | Rainer Frey, Stefan Goldbach |
| Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 223 | A taxonomy of sustainable finance taxonomies | Torsten Ehlers, Diwen Gao, Frank Packer |
| Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 222 | Central Bank Digital Currencies, Crypto Currencies, and Anonymity: Economics and Experiments | Emanuele Borgonovo, Stefano Caselli, Alessandra Cillo, Donato Masciandaro, Giovanni Rabitti |
| Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 215 | Monetary policy strategies in the New Normal: A model-based analysis for the euro area | Fabio Busetti, Stefano Neri, Alessandro Notarpietro, Massimiliano Pisani |
| Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 210 | Exploring DORA - the Digital Operational Resilience Act and its impact on banks and their supervisors | Joachim Wuermeling |
| Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 208 | Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policy | Francesco D’Acunto, Daniel Hoang, Maritta Paloviita, Michael Weber |
| Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 204 | Combining negative rates, forward guidance and asset purchases: Identification and impacts of the ECB’s unconventional policies | Massimo Rostagno, Carlo Altavilla, Giacomo Carboni, Wolfgang Lemke, Roberto Motto, Arthur Saint Guilhem |
| Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 195 | Is window dressing by banks systemically important? | Luis Garcia, Ulf Lewrick, Taja Sečnik |
| Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 190 | The Effects of Fiscal Policy when Planning Horizons are Finite | Joep Lustenhouwer, Kostas Mavromatis |
| Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 183 | Central bank’s financial result and inter-sectoral transfers of benefits | Krzysztof Kruszewski, Mikołaj Szadkowski |
| Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 181 | A liquidity risk early warning indicator for Italian banks: a machine learning approach | Maria Ludovica Drudi, Stefano Nobili |
| Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 177 | Labor adjustment and productivity dynamics: cross-country evidence and policy implications | Maarten Dossche, Andrea Gazzani, Vivien Lewis |
| Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 167 | Limits of stress-test based bank regulation | Tirupam Goel, Isha Agarwal |
| Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 157 | Covid-19 and Capital Flows: The Responses of Investors to the Responses of Governments | Stefan Goldbach, Volker Nitsch |
| 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 Note | No 248 | The Future of Bitcoin | Wim Boonstra |
| 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 122 | Barriers to net zero: How firms can make or break the green transition | Ralph De Haas, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Helena Schweiger |
| 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 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 103 | A bigger house at the cost of an empty fridge? The effect of households’ indebtedness on their consumption: Micro-evidence using Belgian HFCS data | Philip Du Caju, Guillaume Périlleux, François Rycx, Ilan Tojerow |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 100 | Shocks to bank capital as a driver of lending standards to corporates. What can macroprudential policy learn from bank lending surveys? | Ewa Wróbel |
| May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 97 | Stress-Testing Net Trading Income: The Case of European Banks | Carla Giglio, Frances Shaw, Nicolas Syrichas and Giuseppe Cappelletti |
| 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 Note | No 239 | How to prevent a too restrictive fiscal policy in Europe? | Wim Boonstra |
| May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 87 | Banking regulation and the benefits of international cooperation – views from a banking supervisor | Joachim Wuermeling |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 73 | The Saving and Employment Effects of Higher Job Loss Risk | Ragnar E. Juelsrud, Ella Getz Wold |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Note | No 229 | Shifts in the portfolio holdings of euro area investors in the midst of COVID-19: looking-through investment funds | Daniel Carvalho, Martin Schmitz |
| Mar 2021 | Policy Brief | No 60 | EU – US: Towards renewed transatlantic cooperation? | Maartje Wijffelaars, Philip Marey |
| Mar 2021 | Policy Brief | No 57 | Central bank communication with the general public: effective or not? | Nils Brouwer, Jakob de Haan |
| Mar 2021 | Policy Brief | No 55 | Debt cancellation by the ECB: Does it make a difference? | Paul de Grauwe |
| Mar 2021 | Policy Note | No 227 | Scarring in Europe | Reza Moghadam, Markus Guetschow, Camille White |
| Feb 2021 | Policy Brief | No 52 | Pandemic Recession, Recovery Plan and Helicopter Money: A Tale from the Serenissima | Charles Goodhart, Donato Masciandaro, Stefano Ugolini |
| 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 Brief | No 47 | Banking Across Borders: Are Chinese Banks Different? | Eugenio Cerutti, Catherine Koch, Swapan-Kumar Pradhan |
| Feb 2021 | Policy Note | No 222 | A pragmatic solution for the liquidity in resolution problem | Matthias Gruber, Stefan W. Schmitz |
| Jan 2021 | Policy Note | No 219 | Buffer usability and potential stigma effects | Stefan W. Schmitz, Viola Nellessen, Michaela Posch, Peter Strobl |
| Jan 2021 | Policy Note | No 218 | Interest rate-growth differentials on government debt: an empirical investigation for the euro area | Cristina Checherita-Westphal and João Domingues Semeano |
| Dec 2020 | Policy Note | No 213 | COVID-19 pandemic: Perception, confusion and conspiracies | Stefan Schneider |
| Dec 2020 | Policy Brief | No 38 | Limits of the Market | Paul De Grauwe |
| Nov 2020 | Policy Brief | No 36 | A stronger voice for Europe in global development | Werner Hoyer |
| 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 Note | No 203 | Tracking Covid: What Worked? | Markus Guetschow |
| Oct 2020 | Policy Brief | No 33 | Update of the European Fiscal Monitor (September 2020) | Willem-Pieter de Groen, Inna Oliinyk |
| 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 193 | Inclusive payments for the post-pandemic world | Raphael Auer, Jon Frost, Thomas Lammer, Tara Rice, Amber Wadsworth |
| 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 |
| 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 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 14 | Do contactless cards really change the way we pay? | Martin Brown, Nicole Hentschel, Hannes Mettler, Helmut Stix |
| May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 9 | ECB needs to finance Corona budget deficits | Paul De Grauwe |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Brief | No 4 | How the economy will recover from the Corona shock | Jörg Krämer and Bernd Weidensteiner |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Brief | No 3 | What central banks have done to help the economy survive Covid-19 | Florens Odendahl, Adrian Penalver, and Urszula Szczerbowicz |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Brief | No 2 | Politics and Economics of Global Currencies | Paul De Grauwe |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Brief | No 1 | Regulation, Corporate Culture and Individual Responsibility in Banking | David T Llewellyn |
| Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 155 | The range of different opinions and moods in Germany on collective ‘corona bonds’ | Ingobert Waltenberger |
| 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 138 | Euro Area Economics: Greenflation? | Jacob Nell, Joao Almeida, Markus Guetschow |
| Dec 2019 | Policy Note | No 120 | Investing in Europe’s Competitiveness and Sustainability | Werner Hoyer |
| Dec 2019 | Policy Note | No 119 | Central bank independence and inflation | Ryszard Kokoszczyński, Joanna Mackiewicz-Łyziak |
| 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 107 | Tackling non-performing loans in Europe | Peter Grasmann, Markus Aspegren, Nicolas Willems |
| Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 106 | Banks’ behavioral reactions to Basel III: mostly as intended | Stefan W. Schmitz |
| Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 101 | Central bank digital currency: institutional issues | Wim Boonstra |
| Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 94 | Escaping the Trap: Secular Stagnation, Monetary Policy and Financial Fragility | Martin Wolf |
| Aug 2019 | Policy Note | No 92 | Beliefs and Portfolios: New Measurement and Facts | Stefano Giglio, Matteo Maggiori, Johannes Stroebel, Stephen Utkus |
| Jul 2019 | Policy Note | No 85 | Libra: A new competitor among international currencies? | Beat Weber |
| Jun 2019 | Policy Note | No 78 | Central banks are too risk averse as investors | Massimiliano Castelli, Stefan Gerlach |
| May 2019 | Policy Note | No 72 | Analysing the Economics of BREXIT and World Trade | David T. Llewellyn |
| Apr 2019 | Policy Note | No 67 | What is „Modern Money Theory“ (MMT)? | Beat Weber |
| Feb 2019 | Policy Note | No 57 | Creating an enabling environment for innovation and digitalisation | Debora Revoltella, Tim Bending, Christoph Weiss, Philipp-Bastian Brutscher |
| Feb 2018 | Policy Note | No 26 | Comparability of Basel risk weights in the EU banking sector | Zsofia Döme, Stefan Kerbl |
| Jan 2017 | Policy Note | No 10 | Bail-ins: Issues of Credibility and Contagion | Clas Wihlborg |
| May 2016 | Policy Note | No 7 | Ten Myths in the Brexit Debate | David T. Llewellyn |
| Dec 2015 | Policy Note | No 3 | Cash without future? Future without cash? A wider view | Christian Beer, Urs W. Birchler, Ernest Gnan |
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