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 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 334 | The local presence of global banks | Iñaki Aldasoro, John Caparusso, Yingyuan Chen |
May 2022 | Policy Note | No 277 | What business model for the Digital Euro? Lessons from Brazil and Switzerland | Peter Bofinger, Thomas Haas |
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 315 | Who owns banks? The household-bank nexus and its implications for bank stock prices | Matías Lamas, David Martinez-Miera |
Apr 2022 | Policy Brief | No 310 | Insurers’ investments before and after the COVID-19 outbreak | Federico Apicella, Raffaele Gallo, Giovanni Guazzarotti |
Apr 2022 | Policy Brief | No 308 | Investor demand in syndicated bond issuances: stylised facts | Martin Hillebrand, Marko Mravlak, Peter Schwendner |
Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 272 | Financing Faster Growth For Europe’s SMEs | Sylvain Broyer, Sarah Limbach, Cihan Duran |
Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 271 | Financial stability and crypto-assets | Pablo Hernández de Cos |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 296 | The political economy of reforms in central bank design | Davide Romelli |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 295 | How do Asian central banks use big data? Insights from an Irving Fisher Committee survey | Giulio Cornelli, Sebastian Doerr, Leonardo Gambacorta, Bruno Tissot |
Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 268 | Crisis-tested Europe – Solidarity with Ukraine spurs European identity | Heinz Handler |
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 Note | No 265 | Austrian conceptions of money and the rise of digital currency | Michael Peneder |
Feb 2022 | Policy Note | No 264 | High earners in the European banking sector | Emma-Faye Dertnig, Jakob Hanzl, Mario Hübler, Christoph Prenner |
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 Note | No 262 | The encrypted threat: Bitcoin’s social cost and regulatory responses | Ulrich Bindseil, Patrick Papsdorf, Jürgen Schaaf |
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 260 | Identifying lessons from the current crisis for the prudential framework of the banking system | Pablo Hernández de Cos |
Dec 2021 | Policy Brief | No 247 | Bridge over troubled water? The effectiveness of macroprudential policy during the Covid-19 pandemic in Portugal | Katja Neugebauer, Vítor Oliveira, Ângelo Ramos |
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 |
Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 233 | Caveat Emptor | José María Roldán |
Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 231 | A Multi-level Network Approach to Spillovers Analysis: An Application to the Maltese Domestic Investment Funds Sector | Francesco Meglioli, Stephanie Gauci |
Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 213 | The role of prudential policy in addressing climate change | Fernando Restoy |
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 199 | The impact of macroprudential policies on capital flows in CESEE | Markus Eller, Niko Hauzenberger, Florian Huber, Helene Schuberth, Lukas Vashold |
Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 194 | The impact of COVID-19 on analysts’ sentiment about the banking sector | Alicia Aguilar, Diego Torres |
Oct 2021 | Policy Note | No 257 | Systemic Implications of the Bail-in Design: A Precis of our Main Text | J. Doyne Farmer, Charles Goodhart, Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis |
Sep 2021 | Policy Note | No 256 | Ultra low interest rates from the perspective of a central banker | Lars Rohde |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 178 | Contagious Zombies | Christian Bittner, Falko Fecht, Co-Pierre Georg |
Sep 2021 | Policy Note | No 252 | Forging the Future of Monetary Union – taking stock and looking forward | Markus Rodlauer, Rolf Strauch |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 170 | Pension funds’ portfolio choices and investment beliefs | Dirk Broeders, Kristy Jansen |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 167 | Limits of stress-test based bank regulation | Tirupam Goel, Isha Agarwal |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 161 | Banks’ complexity-risk nexus and the role of regulation | Natalya Martynova, Ursula Vogel |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 158 | Bank pricing of corporate loans | Márcio Mateus, Tiago Pinheiro |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 155 | The anatomy of bond ETF arbitrage | Karamfil Todorov |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 147 | Proportionality in banking regulation: who, what and how? | Raihan Zamil |
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 134 | Future Challenges: Old Problems in New Shapes | José María Roldán |
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 Brief | No 131 | Investment funds, monetary policy, and the global financial cycle | Christoph Kaufmann |
Jul 2021 | Policy Note | No 248 | The Future of Bitcoin | Wim Boonstra |
Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 117 | Regulating liquidity risk in mutual funds | Dominic Cucic |
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 Brief | No 112 | Fund Cross-Holdings and Financial Stability | Daniel Fricke, Hannes Wilke |
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 |
May 2021 | Policy Note | No 241 | Digital Disruption: The Inevitable Rise of CBDC | Chetan Ahya, Derrick Kam, Julian Richers |
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 84 | Data sharing for better policy making | Claudia Buch |
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 81 | How the Capital Markets Union can help Europe avoid a liquidity trap | Sylvain Broyer |
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 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 |
Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 67 | How do central banks use big data and machine learning? | Sebastian Doerr, Leonardo Gambacorta, Jose Maria Serena |
Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 62 | The way forward for EU-wide stress tests | Pedro Duarte Neves |
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 |
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 50 | The rise of digital watchers | Till Ebner, Thomas Nellen, Jörn Tenhofen |
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 Brief | No 47 | Banking Across Borders: Are Chinese Banks Different? | Eugenio Cerutti, Catherine Koch, Swapan-Kumar Pradhan |
Feb 2021 | Policy Brief | No 45 | The crisis management framework for banks in the EU: how Can we deal with small and medium-sized banks? | Ignazio Visco |
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 219 | Buffer usability and potential stigma effects | Stefan W. Schmitz, Viola Nellessen, Michaela Posch, Peter Strobl |
Jan 2021 | Policy Note | No 217 | The post-COVID-19 recovery: what challenges and roadmap for the banking industry? | Jordi Gual |
Dec 2020 | Policy Note | No 215 | Consequences for banks’ business from COVID-19 and policy responses | Francesco Mazzaferro |
Dec 2020 | Policy Note | No 212 | Monetary policy effects when interest rates are negative | Joost Bats, Massimo Giuliodori, Aerdt Houben |
Nov 2020 | Policy Note | No 207 | Surge in corporate insolvencies hitting German banks | Jan Schildbach |
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 200 | Finding the Right “Hall of Mirrors”: The Mixed Blessings of Lessons from the Past for Shaping a Post-COVID Future | Robert Holzmann |
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 |
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 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 188 | The Growth of Indexing - What is happening, and why? | Craig Lazzara |
Aug 2020 | Policy Note | No 187 | Measuring Regulatory Complexity | Jean-Edouard Colliard, Co-Pierre Georg |
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 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 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 |
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 176 | Credit Guarantees in the COVID-19 crisis – Relevance and Economic Impact | Julien Brault, Simone Signore |
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 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 169 | Making banking integration work for better risk sharing in the eurozone: the role of cross-border banking consolidation | Mathias Hoffmann |
May 2020 | Policy Note | No 168 | Cross-border consolidation in the European banking sector: between dreams and reality | Jan Van Hove |
May 2020 | Policy Note | No 166 | Turning collective savings into private equity investments: The Covid-19 crisis as a catalyst for pan-European efficient resource allocation | Georges Hübner |
May 2020 | Policy Note | No 165 | Monetary policy implications of digital currencies | Katrin Assenmacher |
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 153 | Passive Funds Actively Affect Prices: Evidence from the Largest ETF Markets | Karamfil Todorov |
Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 152 | European banks in the corona crisis | Jan Schildbach |
Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 146 | The European Deposit Insurance Scheme: Economic Rationale, Issues and Policy Solutions | Ettore Panetti |
Mar 2020 | Policy Note | No 145 | A “European Capitalization and Development Fund” (ECDF) to facilitate Europe’s post-corona recovery | Ernest Gnan |
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 136 | Mortgage Lending and Macroprudential Policy in the UK and US | Alan Brener |
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 134 | Regulating fintech: what is going on, and where are the challenges? | Fernando Restoy |
Feb 2020 | Policy Note | No 132 | The European Banking Union | Margarita Delgado |
Feb 2020 | Policy Note | No 130 | European Banking Consolidation: Can a view to the past inform current policy efforts? | Peter Hahn |
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 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 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 |
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 115 | Putting macroprudential policy to work: a case study on the Dutch housing market | Paul Hilbers, Marco van Hengel |
Nov 2019 | Policy Note | No 113 | Ten years after Lehman, is the financial system safer? | Denis Beau |
Nov 2019 | Policy Note | No 110 | Towards a European Governance Framework for Cryptoassets | Jason Grant Allen, Rosa María Lastra |
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 106 | Banks’ behavioral reactions to Basel III: mostly as intended | Stefan W. Schmitz |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 103 | Non-banks in the EU: ensuring a smooth transition to a Capital Markets Union | Fatima Pires |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 102 | How to improve crisis management in the banking union: a European FDIC? | Fernando Restoy |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 96 | Reconciling risk sharing with market discipline: A constructive approach to euro area reform | Isabel Schnabel |
Aug 2019 | Policy Note | No 89 | Central banks still run money creation | Daniel Daianu |
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 82 | Rethinking Capital Regulation: The Case for a Dividend Prudential Target in the Euro Area | Manuel Muñoz |
Jun 2019 | Policy Note | No 80 | A products and activities approach to managing risk in asset management | Barbara Novick |
Jun 2019 | Policy Note | No 79 | Financial aspects of Brexit | Thomas Url |
Jun 2019 | Policy Note | No 75 | The future of financial stability: Maintaining effectiveness while reducing complexity | Andreas Ittner |
Apr 2019 | Policy Note | No 65 | A New Horizon | Mark Carney |
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 |
Feb 2019 | Policy Note | No 58 | Disintermediation and re-intermediation effects of the CSPP | Óscar Arce, Ricardo Gimeno, Sergio Mayordomo |
Dec 2018 | Policy Note | No 50 | Business models in prudential policies | Isabelle Vaillant, Marina Cernov |
Dec 2018 | Policy Note | No 49 | Bank business models: time to act | Rudi Vander Vennet |
Oct 2018 | Policy Note | No 43 | A Green Supporting Factor — The Right Policy? | Jacob Dankert, Lars van Doorn, Henk Jan Reinders, Olaf Sleijpen |
Aug 2018 | Policy Note | No 40 | 21st century cash: Central banking, technological innovation and digital currencies | Fabio Panetta |
Jul 2018 | Policy Note | No 39 | Green bond finance and certification | Torsten Ehlers, Frank Packer |
May 2018 | Policy Note | No 34 | Modern financial repression in the euro area crisis: making high public debt sustainable? | Ad van Riet |
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 20 | Recent developments in Chinese shadow banking | Michael Chui, Christian Upper |
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 |
Jan 2017 | Policy Note | No 10 | Bail-ins: Issues of Credibility and Contagion | Clas Wihlborg |
May 2016 | Policy Note | No 6 | Bank secrecy in offshore centres, capital flows and blacklisting: It takes two to tango | Donato Masciandaro |
Apr 2016 | Policy Note | No 5 | Some seeming paradoxes or interesting points of Russia’s economy and banking sector | Stephan Barisitz |
Oct 2015 | Policy Note | No 2 | Modigliani–Miller, Basel 3 and CRD 4 | Morten Balling |