In September 2015, SUERF launched the SUERF Policy Notes series with focus on current financial, monetary or economic issues, designed for policy makers and financial practitioners, authored by renowned experts.
Date published | SUERF | Issue | Title | Author(s) |
May 2022 | Policy Note | No 279 | Who comes after us? The correct mindset for designing a Central Bank Digital Currency | Antoine d’Aligny, Emmanuel Benoist, Florian Dold, Christian Grothoff, Özgür Kesim, Martin Schanzenbach |
May 2022 | Policy Note | No 277 | What business model for the Digital Euro? Lessons from Brazil and Switzerland | Peter Bofinger, Thomas Haas |
May 2022 | Policy Note | No 276 | More than an intellectual game: Exploring the monetary policy and financial stability implications of central bank digital currencies | Fabio Panetta |
May 2022 | Policy Brief | No 327 | Under Pressure: Credibility of Monetary Policy | Antoine Camous, Dmitry Matveev |
May 2022 | Policy Brief | No 326 | The impact of QE on sovereign risk | Dirk Broeders, Leo de Haan, Jan Willem van den End |
Apr 2022 | Policy Brief | No 323 | Is Super-Active Fiscal Policy Desirable? | Roberto M. Billi, Carl E. Walsh |
Apr 2022 | Policy Brief | No 316 | Robert Triffin and the search for Asian Monetary Union | Ivo Maes, Ilaria Pasotti |
Apr 2022 | Policy Note | No 273 | The return of inflation | Agustín Carstens |
Apr 2022 | Policy Brief | No 309 | The low-carbon transition, climate commitments and firm credit risk | Sante Carbone, Margherita Giuzio, Sujit Kapadia, Johannes Sebastian Krämer, Ken Nyholm, Katia Vozian |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 306 | ECB Communication and its Impact on Financial Markets | Klodiana Istrefi, Florens Odendahl, Giulia Sestieri |
Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 271 | Financial stability and crypto-assets | Pablo Hernández de Cos |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 301 | Is the ECB applying lessons from the past? | Anselm Küsters |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 299 | When domestic and foreign QE overlap | Paola Di Casola, Pär Stockhammar |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 297 | Central banks’ in-house credit assessment systems – supporting the Eurosystem’s response to the pandemic and its climate change action plan | Aviram Levy, Florian Resch, Anna Maria Rossi, Stephan Sauer |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 296 | The political economy of reforms in central bank design | Davide Romelli |
Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 269 | CBDC and the international position of the euro | Wim Boonstra |
Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 268 | Crisis-tested Europe – Solidarity with Ukraine spurs European identity | Heinz Handler |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 278 | The Political Phillips Curve in the Euro Area: Parliamentary Voice on ECB Monetary Policy | Federico M. Ferrara, Donato Masciandaro, Manuela Moschella, Davide Romelli |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 276 | The COVID Non-Performing Loan ’Tsunami’ that Never Happened and How to Avoid it Now | Reiner Martin, Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi, Elina Ribakova, Jonathan M. Fortun Vargas |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 275 | The effectiveness of ECB euro liquidity lines: spillovers and spillbacks | Silvia Albrizio, Iván Kataryniuk, Luis Molina, Jan Schäfer |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 272 | Global models for a global pandemic: the impact of COVID-19 on small euro area economies | Pablo Garcia, Pascal Jacquinot, Črt Lenarčič, Matija Lozej, Kostas Mavromatis |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 270 | Population ageing and the digital divide | Sebastian Doerr, Jon Frost, Leonardo Gambacorta, Han Qiu |
Jan 2022 | Policy Brief | No 265 | Has the Impact of the ECB’s Asset Purchases Diminished Over Time? | Andrejs Zlobins |
Jan 2022 | Policy Brief | No 260 | Credit Constrained Firms and Government Subsidies: Evidence from a European Union Program | Tirupam Goel, Péter Lang, Eszter Balogh, Ádám Banai, Martin Stancsics, Előd Takáts, Álmos Telegdy |
Jan 2022 | Policy Brief | No 255 | Climate actions and macro-financial stability: The role of central banks | Francesca Diluiso, Barbara Annicchiarico, Matthias Kalkuhl, Jan. C. Minx |
Jan 2022 | Policy Note | No 263 | Monetary Policy in a World of Radical Uncertainty | Mervyn King |
Dec 2021 | Policy Brief | No 254 | What explains the emergence and diffusion of climate-related financial policies in G20 countries? | Paola D’Orazio |
Dec 2021 | Policy Note | No 261 | Mortgage and real estate markets: Current developments pose risks to financial stability | Fritz Zurbrügg |
Dec 2021 | Policy Note | No 259 | Crises as a catalyst for change – lessons from the past, challenges for the future | Jens Weidmann |
Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 209 | The one trillion euro CBDC: Issuing a digital euro without disrupting the bank lending channel | Paolo Fegatelli |
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 197 | How to Design a CBDC? Remuneration, Collateral Haircuts and Quantity Constraints | Katrin Assenmacher, Aleksander Berentsen, Claus Brand, Nora Lamersdorf |
Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 192 | Optimal Robust Monetary Policy with Parameters and Output Gap Uncertainty | Adriana Grasso, Guido Traficante |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 186 | Prudential responses to COVID-19 in G20 countries: a missed opportunity to enhance "green" financial policy and regulations? | Paola D’Orazio |
Sep 2021 | Policy Note | No 256 | Ultra low interest rates from the perspective of a central banker | Lars Rohde |
Sep 2021 | Policy Note | No 255 | Navigating by r*: safe or hazardous? | Claudio Borio |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 178 | Contagious Zombies | Christian Bittner, Falko Fecht, Co-Pierre Georg |
Sep 2021 | Policy Note | No 254 | Fiscal-Monetary Crosswinds in the Euro Area | Lucrezia Reichlin, Giovanni Ricco, Matthieu Tarbé |
Sep 2021 | Policy Note | No 253 | Raising r*: Why, how, and if not now, when? | Robert Holzmann, Maria T. Valderrama |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 175 | The Liquidity of the Government Bond Market – What Impact Does Quantitative Easing Have? Evidence from Sweden | Marianna Blix Grimaldi, Alberto Crosta, Dong Zhang |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 151 | No country is an island: International cooperation and climate change | Massimo Ferrari, Maria Sole Pagliari |
Aug 2021 | Policy Note | No 251 | Green Liquidity Moves Mainstream | Patrick Drury Byrne, Sandeep Chana and Sylvain Broyer |
Aug 2021 | Policy Note | No 250 | Roads for the future: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and Innovative Payments | François Villeroy de Galhau |
Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 141 | Some warning signals about average inflation targeting | Seppo Honkapohja, Nigel McClung |
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 132 | Euro area portfolio flows in 2020: the impact of the Covid-19 crisis | Julia Schmidt, Olivier Sirello |
Jul 2021 | Policy Note | No 249 | Gender, women economic concerns and monetary policy decision-making | Sylvie Goulard |
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 |
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 114 | How to issue a privacy-preserving central bank digital currency | Christian Grothoff, Thomas Moser |
Jun 2021 | Policy Note | No 246 | Integrated policy frameworks: The constraints of policy horizons and adjustment frequencies | Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat |
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 Note | No 243 | What does research say about the effects of central bank balance sheet policies? | Paola Di Casola |
May 2021 | Policy Note | No 242 | Does the upturn in Eurozone money growth imply 5% inflation? | Tim Congdon |
May 2021 | Policy Note | No 241 | Digital Disruption: The Inevitable Rise of CBDC | Chetan Ahya, Derrick Kam, Julian Richers |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 91 | Low Interest Rates and the Distribution of Household Debt | Marina Emiris, François Koulischer |
May 2021 | Policy Note | No 239 | How to prevent a too restrictive fiscal policy in Europe? | Wim Boonstra |
May 2021 | Policy Note | No 238 | Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Privileged powers, entwined responsibilities | Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 84 | Data sharing for better policy making | Claudia Buch |
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 |
Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 81 | How the Capital Markets Union can help Europe avoid a liquidity trap | Sylvain Broyer |
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 71 | CESEE’s Macroprudential Policy Response to Covid-19 | Markus Eller, Reiner Martin, Lukas Vashold |
Apr 2021 | Policy Note | No 231 | The challenges to the banking sector a year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic | Pablo Hernández de Cos |
Mar 2021 | Policy Brief | No 59 | Whatever it takes to save the planet? Central banks and unconventional green policy | Alessandro Ferrari, Valerio Nispi Landi |
Mar 2021 | Policy Note | No 228 | CBDC: Where is the unique selling proposition? | Peter Bofinger,Thomas Haas |
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 |
Mar 2021 | Policy Brief | No 53 | Who has purchased euro area debt since the start of the health crisis? | Olivier Sirello |
Feb 2021 | Policy Note | No 223 | Bank stress tests: their philosophy and their use by prudential authorities during the Covid-19 crisis | Valère Fourel, Julien Idier, Valerio Scalone, Aurore Schilte |
Feb 2021 | Policy Note | No 222 | A pragmatic solution for the liquidity in resolution problem | Matthias Gruber, Stefan W. Schmitz |
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 |
Jan 2021 | Policy Note | No 220 | Is the 100% Reserve Reform Finally Getting Topical? | Christian Pfister |
Jan 2021 | Policy Note | No 216 | Capital Buffer Assignments to Other Systemically Important Institutions in the Euro area – Is the Country Heterogeneity in the EU caused by Regulatory Capture? | Michael Sigmund |
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 |
Dec 2020 | Policy Note | No 212 | Monetary policy effects when interest rates are negative | Joost Bats, Massimo Giuliodori, Aerdt Houben |
Dec 2020 | Policy Note | No 211 | Preparing for a higher inflation regime | Elga Bartsch, Jean Boivin, Philipp Hildebrand |
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 205 | Retail CBDC Remuneration: The Sign Matters | Christian Pfister |
Oct 2020 | Policy Note | No 202 | Policy revolution | Elga Bartsch, Jean Boivin, Stanley Fischer, Philipp Hildebrand |
Oct 2020 | Policy Note | No 201 | Central banks’ response to the “tragedy on the horizon” | François Villeroy de Galhau |
Oct 2020 | Policy Note | No 200 | Finding the Right “Hall of Mirrors”: The Mixed Blessings of Lessons from the Past for Shaping a Post-COVID Future | Robert Holzmann |
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 Note | No 198 | The shadow of fiscal dominance: Misconceptions, perceptions and perspectives | Isabel Schnabel |
Oct 2020 | Policy Note | No 197 | The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival | C.A.E. Goodhart, Manoj Pradhan |
Sep 2020 | Policy Note | No 196 | The Eurosystem collateral framework in 2018 and 2019 | Marco Corsi, Benjamin Hartung, Viktoriya Gocheva |
Sep 2020 | Policy Brief | No 29 | A Journey through the Monetary Cyber World | Christian Pfister |
Sep 2020 | Policy Note | No 192 | A rule-based monetary strategy for the European Central Bank: a call for monetary stability | Juan E. Castañeda |
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 190 | Finland and monetary policy through three crises | Tuomas Välimäki and Meri Obstbaum |
Jul 2020 | Policy Note | No 183 | Retail Central Bank Digital Currencies: means of payment vs store of value | Santiago Fernández de Lis, Pablo Urbiola |
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 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 Note | No 179 | The need for a new financial architecture after CORONA, an opinion | Freddy Van den Spiegel |
Jun 2020 | Policy Note | No 174 | The international role of the euro | Marco Buti |
Jun 2020 | Policy Brief | No 15 | There is nothing magic in central bank money | Jean Barthélemy, Adrian Penalver |
May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 12 | An ECB digital currency – a flight of fancy? | Yves Mersch |
May 2020 | Policy Note | No 170 | International inflation co-movements | Philip R. Lane |
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 161 | Shh, don’t say it! ECB Helicopter Money: Economics and Politics | Donato Masciandaro |
Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 159 | Embedded supervision: how to build regulation into Libra 2.0 and the token economy | Raphael Auer |
Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 148 | Reflections on the health and financial crisis | Jacques de Larosière |
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 143 | Central Bank Digital Currency: A Primer | Christian Pfister |
Mar 2020 | Policy Note | No 139 | Capital Regulations and the Management of Credit Commitments during Crisis Times | Paul Pelzl, María Teresa Valderrama |
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 131 | Populism, Economic Policies and Central Banking: an Overview | Ernest Gnan, Donato Masciandaro |
Feb 2020 | Policy Note | No 129 | How Could Central Bank Digital Currencies Be Designed? | Itai Agur, Anil Ari, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia |
Jan 2020 | Policy Note | No 127 | Europe’s role in the global financial system | Luis de Guindos |
Jan 2020 | Policy Note | No 125 | Should central banks also be supervisors: a political economy perspective | Donato Masciandaro |
Jan 2020 | Policy Note | No 123 | DLT-Based Regulatory Reporting - A game changer for the regulatory regime? | Daniel Münch, Noah Bellon |
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 117 | Euro Area Fiscal Policy: The Factual, the Possible and the Surprising | Daniele Antonucci |
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 114 | Central Banking in challenging times | Claudio Borio |
Nov 2019 | Policy Note | No 112 | Inflation In The Eurozone Is Dead. Long Live (The Right Kind Of) Inflation | Sylvain Broyer |
Nov 2019 | Policy Note | No 110 | Towards a European Governance Framework for Cryptoassets | Jason Grant Allen, Rosa María Lastra |
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 106 | Banks’ behavioral reactions to Basel III: mostly as intended | Stefan W. Schmitz |
Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 105 | Dealing with the next downturn: From unconventional monetary policy to unprecedented policy coordination | Elga Bartsch, Jean Boivin, Stanley Fischer, Philipp Hildebrand |
Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 104 | On Crypto Assets | Andrei Kirilenko |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 101 | Central bank digital currency: institutional issues | Wim Boonstra |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 95 | Controlling CBDC through tiered remuneration | Ulrich Bindseil |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 94 | Escaping the Trap: Secular Stagnation, Monetary Policy and Financial Fragility | Martin Wolf |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 93 | European Economic and Monetary Union: from the Past into the Future | Jean-Claude Trichet |
Aug 2019 | Policy Note | No 89 | Central banks still run money creation | Daniel Daianu |
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 |
Apr 2019 | Policy Note | No 67 | What is „Modern Money Theory“ (MMT)? | Beat Weber |
Mar 2019 | Policy Note | No 61 | Beyond voluntary disclosure: why a ‘market-shaping’ approach to financial regulation is needed to meet the challenge of climate change | Josh Ryan-Collins |
Mar 2019 | Policy Note | No 59 | New Frontiers in the Euro Debate in Iceland | Thorsteinn Thorgeirsson |
Feb 2019 | Policy Note | No 58 | Disintermediation and re-intermediation effects of the CSPP | Óscar Arce, Ricardo Gimeno, Sergio Mayordomo |
Jan 2019 | Policy Note | No 52 | Monetary Policy beyond normalization | Maria Demertzis |
Aug 2018 | Policy Note | No 40 | 21st century cash: Central banking, technological innovation and digital currencies | Fabio Panetta |
May 2018 | Policy Note | No 33 | Populism and Central Bank Independence | Donato Masciandaro, Francesco Passarelli |
Feb 2018 | Policy Note | No 27 | Euro area quantitative easing: Large volumes, small impact? | Daniel Gros |
Oct 2017 | Policy Note | No 19 | Is cash back? Assessing the recent increase in cash demand | Clemens Jobst, Helmut Stix |
Jul 2017 | Policy Note | No 14 | Banks or platforms: The digital future | Patricia Jackson |
Dec 2016 | Policy Note | No 9 | Two turbulent centuries: Lessons from Austria’s monetary policy, 1816-2016 | Ernest Gnan, Clemens Jobst |
Nov 2016 | Policy Note | No 8 | Doves, Hawks and Pigeons: Behavioral Monetary Policy Making | Donato Masciandaro |
Apr 2016 | Policy Note | No 5 | Some seeming paradoxes or interesting points of Russia’s economy and banking sector | Stephan Barisitz |
Feb 2016 | Policy Note | No 4 | Gender diversity and monetary policy | Donato Masciandaro, Paola Profeta, Davide Romelli |
Dec 2015 | Policy Note | No 3 | Cash without future? Future without cash? A wider view | Christian Beer, Urs W. Birchler, Ernest Gnan |
Sep 2015 | Policy Note | No 1 | What is money and who says so? | Peter R. Fisher |