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) |
Jun 2022 | Policy Note | No 283 | Sanctions in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine | Cristina Sofia Dias, Kristina Grigaitė and Marcel Magnus |
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 Note | No 282 | Trade and Climate – The Disrupted Nexus | Stefan P. Schleicher |
Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 350 | The currency channel of global bank leverage: a boost to fund-raising capacity | Justine Pedrono |
May 2022 | Policy Brief | No 339 | Does own wealth and wealth of others matter for life satisfaction? | Antje Jantsch, Julia Le Blanc,Tobias Schmidt |
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 337 | Does it matter that households disagree about inflation? | Alistair Macaulay |
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 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 Brief | No 332 | Analysis of ESG disclosures in Pillar 3 reports. A text mining approach | Angel Iván Moreno, Teresa Caminero García |
May 2022 | Policy Brief | No 331 | Caution: Do not cross! Distance to regulatory capital buffers and lending in Covid-19 times | Cyril Couaillier, Marco Lo Duca, Alessio Reghezza, Costanza Rodriguez d’Acri |
May 2022 | Policy Brief | No 330 | How to regulate crypto currencies | Eduard de Jong |
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 Brief | No 321 | Would a retail CBDC achieve its intended purpose? | Romain Baeriswyl, Samuel Reynard, Alexandre Swoboda |
Apr 2022 | Policy Brief | No 319 | Time for a circular business cycle clock | Nuno Lourenço, António Rua |
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 |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 305 | Is There Financial Exclusion when Official Lenders Are Considered? | María Bru Muñoz |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 303 | Rising rent burdens following distorting investment incentives – The effects of rent controls in Germany | Vera Baye, Valeriya Dinger |
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 Brief | No 294 | Preparing for the Financial System of the Future | Lael Brainard |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 291 | The Political Economy of Currency Unions | Kai Arvai |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 284 | House Prices and Misallocation: The Impact of the Collateral Channel on Productivity | Sergi Basco, David Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique Moral-Benito |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 281 | GDP-linked bonds and the fear of ambiguity | Deniz Igan, Taehoon Kim, Antoine Levy |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 273 | Revisiting the Properties of Money | Isaiah Hull, Or Sattath |
Feb 2022 | Policy Note | No 265 | Austrian conceptions of money and the rise of digital currency | Michael Peneder |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 268 | Monetary policy and the green transition | Lena Boneva, Gianluigi Ferrucci, Francesco Paolo Mongelli |
Jan 2022 | Policy Brief | No 259 | How to analyse monetary policy transmission and inequality in a three-agent model (THRANK) | Maria Eskelinen |
Jan 2022 | Policy Brief | No 257 | Why do households save? | Sami Oinonen, Matti Viren |
Dec 2021 | Policy Brief | No 252 | Determinants of the credit cycle: a flow analysis of the extensive margin | Vincenzo Cuciniello, Nicola di Iasio |
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 246 | Public trust only partly immune to COVID-19 pandemic | Carin van der Cruijsen, Jakob de Haan, Nicole Jonker |
Dec 2021 | Policy Brief | No 244 | Switching-track after the Great Recession | Francesca Vinci, Omar Licandro |
Dec 2021 | Policy Brief | No 238 | Business Dynamism, Sectoral Reallocation and Productivity in a Pandemic | Guido Ascari, Andrea Colciago, Riccardo Silvestrini |
Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 224 | Does the shadow economy explain household saving? | Sami Oinonen, Matti Viren |
Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 223 | A taxonomy of sustainable finance taxonomies | Torsten Ehlers, Diwen Gao, Frank Packer |
Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 220 | Consumption and service sector key factors in the COVID-19 trade collapse | Heli Simola |
Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 214 | How do Loan-to-Value Caps Impact Bank Lending and Credit Spillover? | Selva Bahar Baziki, Tanju Çapacıoğlu |
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 207 | The Rise in Foreign Currency Bonds: The Role of US Monetary Policy and Capital Controls | Philippe Bacchetta, Rachel Cordonier, Ouarda Merrouche |
Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 205 | Mind the promotional gap! Climate-related financial policies and institutional dynamics | Moritz Baer, Emanuele Campiglio, Jérôme Deyris |
Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 202 | Revisiting the link between government debt and sovereign interest rates in the euro area | Stéphanie Pamies, Nicolas Carnot, Anda Pătărău |
Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 200 | The highly heterogeneous impact of the Covid-19 crisis on French firms | Benjamin Bureau, Anne Duquerroy, Julien Giorgi, Mathias Lé, Suzanne Scott, Frédéric Vinas |
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 |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 187 | Can policy boost the international role of currencies? Lessons from international trade invoicing | Georgios Georgiadis, Helena Le Mezo, Arnaud Mehl, Cédric Tille |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 177 | Labor adjustment and productivity dynamics: cross-country evidence and policy implications | Maarten Dossche, Andrea Gazzani, Vivien Lewis |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 171 | Curb your enthusiasm: the aggregate short-run effects of a borrower-based measure | Joana Passinhas, Daniel Abreu |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 158 | Bank pricing of corporate loans | Márcio Mateus, Tiago Pinheiro |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 157 | Covid-19 and Capital Flows: The Responses of Investors to the Responses of Governments | Stefan Goldbach, Volker Nitsch |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 154 | Can Internet banking affect households’ participation in financial markets and financial awareness? | Valentina Michelangeli, Eliana Viviano |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 150 | Digital euro has potential in the Netherlands | Michiel Bijlsma, Carin van der Cruijsen, Nicole Jonker and Jelmer Reijerink |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 148 | The role of information channels and experience for households’ inflation expectations | Christian Conrad, Zeno Enders and Alexander Glas |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 146 | Digital payments and European sovereignty | Burkhard Balz |
Aug 2021 | Policy Note | No 250 | Roads for the future: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and Innovative Payments | François Villeroy de Galhau |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 143 | The dynamics of macroeconomic downside risk | By Davide Delle Monache, Andrea De Polis and Ivan Petrella |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 142 | Consumption patterns in Italy during COVID-19 | Elisa Guglielminetti and Concetta Rondinelli |
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 128 | Effects of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme on consumption risk sharing and production efficiency | Zeno Enders, David Vespermann |
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 118 | The reduction in homeownership rates for the young | Gonzalo Paz-Pardo |
Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 116 | The euro area sovereign debt markets in the crisis: role and impact on financial stability perspectives | Denis Beau |
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 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 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 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 98 | Detecting turning point in the Danish economy in real time – nowcasting in Danmarks Nationalbank during the covid-19 crisis | Jesper Pedersen |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 95 | A digital euro to meet the expectations of Europeans | Fabio Panetta |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 91 | Low Interest Rates and the Distribution of Household Debt | Marina Emiris, François Koulischer |
May 2021 | Policy Note | No 238 | Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Privileged powers, entwined responsibilities | Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 89 | Foreclosures and House Prices | Michele Loberto |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 88 | Strengthening the international role of the euro | Gergely Hudecz, Gong Cheng, Edmund Moshammer, Alexander Raabe |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 85 | Navigating the Digital Transition, Maintaining a Stable Payment System | Denis Beau |
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 78 | Not all debt is bank debt: Nonbank borrowing in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe | Katharina Allinger, Elisabeth Beckmann |
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 Brief | No 72 | Uncertainty Is Not an Excuse. Integrating Climate Risks into Monetary Policy Operations and Financial Supervision | Julia Anna Bingler, Chiara Colesanti Senni, Pierre Monnin |
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 Note | No 230 | Immovable property: where, why and how should it be taxed? | Doris Prammer |
Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 64 | Shaken but not deterred: business confidence and Covid-19 in the Euro area | Gene Ambrocio |
Mar 2021 | Policy Brief | No 60 | EU – US: Towards renewed transatlantic cooperation? | Maartje Wijffelaars, Philip Marey |
Mar 2021 | Policy Brief | No 58 | Next Generation EU: can we do better? | Lorenzo Codogno, Paul van den Noord |
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 228 | CBDC: Where is the unique selling proposition? | Peter Bofinger,Thomas Haas |
Feb 2021 | Policy Brief | No 50 | The rise of digital watchers | Till Ebner, Thomas Nellen, Jörn Tenhofen |
Jan 2021 | Policy Note | No 220 | Is the 100% Reserve Reform Finally Getting Topical? | Christian Pfister |
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 |
Jan 2021 | Policy Note | No 217 | The post-COVID-19 recovery: what challenges and roadmap for the banking industry? | Jordi Gual |
Dec 2020 | Policy Brief | No 40 | Could housing booms undermine productivity growth? | Sebastian Doerr |
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 203 | Tracking Covid: What Worked? | Markus Guetschow |
Oct 2020 | Policy Note | No 201 | Central banks’ response to the “tragedy on the horizon” | François Villeroy de Galhau |
Oct 2020 | Policy Brief | No 32 | More travel warnings are almost like a new lockdown for the hospitality industry | Eric Heymann |
Oct 2020 | Policy Note | No 198 | The shadow of fiscal dominance: Misconceptions, perceptions and perspectives | Isabel Schnabel |
Sep 2020 | Policy Note | No 195 | The EU’s “Northern enlargement” 25 years on – stocktaking and some thoughts for the future | Ernest Gnan and Robert Holzmann |
Sep 2020 | Policy Brief | No 29 | A Journey through the Monetary Cyber World | Christian Pfister |
Sep 2020 | Policy Brief | No 28 | Limits and pitfalls of QE in emerging markets | Daniel Daianu |
Aug 2020 | Policy Brief | No 24 | The big debt surge | Ralph Solveen |
Aug 2020 | Policy Brief | No 22 | Radical Uncertainty | John Kay |
Jul 2020 | Policy Brief | No 20 | How firms are adapting to the lockdown: insights from text mining | Mathilde Gerardin, Martial Ranvier |
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 Brief | No 17 | Financial resilience of German households to Corona triggered income shock | Orcun Kaya |
Jun 2020 | Policy Note | No 180 | Which factors drive consumers to adopt crypto-assets? Results from an Austrian survey | Helmut Stix |
Jun 2020 | Policy Note | No 176 | Credit Guarantees in the COVID-19 crisis – Relevance and Economic Impact | Julien Brault, Simone Signore |
Jun 2020 | Policy Note | No 175 | Towards a wider international role for the euro | Francesco Papadia, Konstantinos Efstathiou |
Jun 2020 | Policy Note | No 174 | The international role of the euro | Marco Buti |
May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 12 | An ECB digital currency – a flight of fancy? | Yves Mersch |
May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 11 | Simulating the distributive effects of the Macron-Merkel Recovery Fund | Friedrich Heinemann |
May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 9 | ECB needs to finance Corona budget deficits | Paul De Grauwe |
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 Brief | No 8 | The currency composition of foreign exchange reserves | Hiro Ito and Robert N McCauley |
May 2020 | Policy Note | No 165 | Monetary policy implications of digital currencies | Katrin Assenmacher |
May 2020 | Policy Note | No 163 | Coronavirus and the world of work | Monika Kiss |
May 2020 | Policy Note | No 162 | How large is the coronavirus macro shock? Putting the near-term record-breaking shock in the long-term context | Elga Bartsch, Jean Boivin, Philipp Hildebrand |
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 158 | Overview of Central Bank Digital Currency - State of Play | Johannes Duong |
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 150 | How deep will it fall? Comparing the euro area recessions of 2020 and 2009 | Andreas Breitenfellner, Paul Ramskogler |
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 143 | Central Bank Digital Currency: A Primer | Christian Pfister |
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 136 | Mortgage Lending and Macroprudential Policy in the UK and US | Alan Brener |
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 122 | TCFD: strengthening the foundations of sustainable finance | Mark Carney |
Dec 2019 | Policy Note | No 120 | Investing in Europe’s Competitiveness and Sustainability | Werner Hoyer |
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 115 | Putting macroprudential policy to work: a case study on the Dutch housing market | Paul Hilbers, Marco van Hengel |
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 111 | Reforming the Stability and Growth Pact: Striving for sustainability while offering room for manoeuvre | Karsten Wendorff |
Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 104 | On Crypto Assets | Andrei Kirilenko |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 99 | The euro’s global role: past, present and future | Arnaud Mehl |
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 88 | Mitigating Fiscal Risks from the Financial Sector | Ludger Schuknecht |
Jul 2019 | Policy Note | No 85 | Libra: A new competitor among international currencies? | Beat Weber |
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 71 | Rethinking the Trade-offs for Monetary Policy in an Era of Globalization | Enrique Martínez-García |
Apr 2019 | Policy Note | No 65 | A New Horizon | Mark Carney |
Mar 2019 | Policy Note | No 59 | New Frontiers in the Euro Debate in Iceland | Thorsteinn Thorgeirsson |
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 45 | A plea for a paradigm shift in financial decision-making in the age of climate change and disruptive technologies | Angela Köppl, Sigrid Stagl |
Aug 2018 | Policy Note | No 40 | 21st century cash: Central banking, technological innovation and digital currencies | Fabio Panetta |
May 2018 | Policy Note | No 34 | Modern financial repression in the euro area crisis: making high public debt sustainable? | Ad van Riet |
Mar 2018 | Policy Note | No 28 | Credit conditions and corporate investment in Europe | Laurent Maurin, Rozalia Pal, Philipp-Bastian Brutscher |
Jan 2018 | Policy Note | No 24 | Fairness and Support for the Reforms: Lessons from the Transition Economies | Sergei Guriev |
Nov 2017 | Policy Note | No 21 | Risk sharing in EMU: key insights from a literature review | Demosthenes Ioannou, David Schäfer |
Oct 2017 | Policy Note | No 19 | Is cash back? Assessing the recent increase in cash demand | Clemens Jobst, Helmut Stix |
May 2016 | Policy Note | No 7 | Ten Myths in the Brexit Debate | David T. Llewellyn |
Apr 2016 | Policy Note | No 5 | Some seeming paradoxes or interesting points of Russia’s economy and banking sector | Stephan Barisitz |
Sep 2015 | Policy Note | No 1 | What is money and who says so? | Peter R. Fisher |