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 2023 | Policy Brief | No 595 | Don’t blame the government!? An assessment of debt forecast errors with a view to the Economic Governance Review | Alena Bachleitner, Doris Prammer |
May 2023 | Policy Brief | No 594 | Lessons from forecast averaging residential investment | Carlos Cañizares Martínez, Gabe de Bondt, Arne Gieseck |
May 2023 | Policy Brief | No 586 | The Big Problem of Small Syndicates | Mingze Gao, Iftekhar Hasan, Buhui Qiu, Eliza Wu |
May 2023 | Policy Brief | No 583 | Commodity prices and the US dollar | Daniel Rees |
May 2023 | Policy Note | No 310 | Monetary and fiscal policies as anchors of trust and stability | Agustín Carstens |
Apr 2023 | Policy Brief | No 566 | Dump the Hump: How Education Impacts Consumption Smoothing and Macroeconomic Outcomes | Svend E. Hougaard Jensen, Sigurdur P. Olafsson, Thorsteinn S. Sveinsson, Gylfi Zoega |
Mar 2023 | Policy Brief | No 547 | Conditional density forecasting: a tempered importance sampling approach | Carlos Montes-Galdón, Joan Paredes, Elias Wolf |
Feb 2023 | Policy Note | No 301 | Consistent economic policies: a prerequisite for macroeconomic stability | Pablo Hernández de Cos |
Feb 2023 | Policy Brief | No 533 | When food bites back: What quarterly firm-level data reveal about food inflation | André Casalis |
Feb 2023 | Policy Brief | No 532 | A New EU Economic Governance and Fiscal Framework: what role for the national independent fiscal institutions (IFIs)? | Daniel Daianu |
Feb 2023 | Policy Brief | No 521 | Can Machine Learning Methods Help Nowcast GDP? | Andreas Pick, Jasper de Winter |
Feb 2023 | Policy Brief | No 520 | Measuring the Optimum Currency Area properties of the euro area over its 20 years’ history | Davor Kunovac, Diego Rodriguez Palenzuela, Yiqiao Sun |
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 Brief | No 498 | Get your bearings: guidelines for newspaper based economic indicators | Erik Andres-Escayola, Corinna Ghirelli, Luis Molina, Javier Perez, Elena Vidal |
Dec 2022 | Policy Brief | No 492 | Euro area’s persistent current account surplus – a reason behind a decade of low interest rates? | Tobias Schuler, Yiqiao Sun |
Dec 2022 | Policy Brief | No 488 | Can we have a sudden stop for inflation? | Juhana Hukkinen, Matti Viren |
Dec 2022 | Policy Brief | No 481 | Should central banks be involved in historical research? | Ivo Maes |
Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 479 | Strategic behaviours and the policy response to commodity price shocks | Massimo Ferrari Minesso, Maria Sole Pagliari |
Oct 2022 | Policy Brief | No 454 | Augmented credit-to-GDP gap as a more reliable indicator for macroprudential policy decision-making | Tihana Škrinjarić |
Oct 2022 | Policy Brief | No 452 | Are governments inflating their economic forecasts ahead of elections? | Davide Cipullo, André Reslow |
Oct 2022 | Policy Note | No 291 | Monetary policy and inflation: recent developments | Ignazio Visco |
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 423 | Country biases in equity portfolios are less pronounced and less irrational than one might think | Martijn Boermans, Ian Cooper, Piet Sercu, Rosanne Vanpée |
Sep 2022 | Policy Note | No 287 | Monetary policy and the Great Volatility | Isabel Schnabel |
Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 411 | Subjective Expectations and Uncertainty | Andrzej Kocięcki, Tomasz Łyziak, Ewa Stanisławska |
Aug 2022 | Policy Brief | No 400 | Regulatory complexity, uncertainty, and systemic risk | Maurizio Trapanese |
Aug 2022 | Policy Brief | No 392 | Consumption-led expansions lead to lower growth | Matti Viren |
Jul 2022 | Policy Brief | No 377 | What lessons can we learn from the heterogeneity in inflation expectations among economic agents? | Camille Cornand, Paul Hubert |
Jul 2022 | Policy Brief | No 375 | A shot in the arm: stimulus packages and firm performance during COVID-19 | Deniz Igan, Ali Mirzaei, Tomoe Moore |
Jul 2022 | Policy Brief | No 370 | Too little too late: ECB’s normalisation path was model- rather than data-driven | Daniel Gros, Farzaneh Shamsfakhr |
Jul 2022 | Policy Brief | No 366 | Firm-level expectations and macroeconomic conditions: underpinnings and disagreement | Monique Reid, Pierre Siklos |
Jul 2022 | Policy Brief | No 365 | Subjective inflation expectations of households and firms | Michael Weber |
Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 358 | Forecasting Inflation in France: an update of the model used at Banque de France | Youssef Ulgazi, Paul Vertier |
Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 355 | Japan’s Sovereign Rating in the Post-Pandemic Era: Quo Vadis? | Jinho Choi, Alexander den Ruijter, Kimi Xu Jiang, Edmund Moshammer |
Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 354 | A Coasian Bargain: Climate Financing to Phase Out Coal | Tobias Adrian, Patrick Bolton, Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis |
Jun 2022 | Policy Note | No 282 | Trade and Climate – The Disrupted Nexus | Stefan P. Schleicher |
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 |
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 Note | No 278 | Monitoring Narratives: an Application to the Equity Market | Pascal Blanqué, Mohamed Ben Slimane, Amina Cherief, Théo Le Guenedal, Takaya Sekine, Lauren Stagnol |
Apr 2022 | Policy Note | No 274 | Stylised facts on debt and financial crisis | Pedro Duarte Neves |
Apr 2022 | Policy Brief | No 317 | Evidence on financial literacy and financial inclusion in Albania | Elona Dushku |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 288 | Economists: not enough transparency? Evidence from a reproducibility exercise of a top economic journal | Sylvérie Herbert, Hautahi Kingi, Flavio Stanchi, Lars Vilhuber |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 286 | Private and Public Debt: Some Implications on Economic Growth | Patrizio Morganti |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 285 | Why the impact of the health crisis in 2020 was uneven across the euro area economies? | Ángel Luis Gómez, Ana del Río |
Feb 2022 | Policy Note | No 265 | Austrian conceptions of money and the rise of digital currency | Michael Peneder |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 271 | Including inflation expectations helps to improve inflation forecasts of econometric models | Marta Bańbura, Danilo Leiva-León, Jan-Oliver Menz |
Feb 2022 | Policy Brief | No 268 | Monetary policy and the green transition | Lena Boneva, Gianluigi Ferrucci, Francesco Paolo Mongelli |
Dec 2021 | Policy Brief | No 244 | Switching-track after the Great Recession | Francesca Vinci, Omar Licandro |
Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 234 | Optimism is bad for fiscal outcomes | Martin Larch, Janis Malzubris, Matthias Busse |
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 219 | How do banks propagate economic shocks? | Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Seyit Mümin Cılasun, H. Özlem Dursun-de Neef, Yavuz Selim Hacıhasanoğlu, İbrahim Yarba |
Oct 2021 | Policy Brief | No 208 | Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policy | Francesco D’Acunto, Daniel Hoang, Maritta Paloviita, Michael Weber |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 180 | Sovereign CDS Volatility as an Indicator of Economic Uncertainty | Maximilian Böck, Martin Feldkircher, Burkhard Raunig |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 176 | Does the ECB’s monetary policy react to the balance of risks? | Philippine Cour-Thimann, Alexander Jung |
Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 174 | Low-for-ultra-long policy will not be enough for Japan | Hiroshi Ugai |
Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 156 | More aware societies suffered less from Covid-19 | Alejandro Buesa, Javier J. Pérez, Daniel Santabárbara |
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 126 | Intergenerational macroeconomics | Gabriel Makhlouf |
Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 111 | A rising core lifts all baskets | Bruce Kasman, Joseph Lupton, Michael S Hanson |
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 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 237 | Will consumers save the EU recovery? - Insights from the Commission’s consumer survey | Roberta Friz, Fiona Morice |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 88 | Strengthening the international role of the euro | Gergely Hudecz, Gong Cheng, Edmund Moshammer, Alexander Raabe |
May 2021 | Policy Note | No 236 | Europe’s growth gap: reconciling Keynes and Schumpeter | François Villeroy de Galhau |
Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 68 | Banking union - achievements and challenges | Luis de Guindos |
Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 63 | The role of fiscal policies in the Covid-19 crisis: scope and limitations | Niels Thygesen |
Jan 2021 | Policy Note | No 217 | The post-COVID-19 recovery: what challenges and roadmap for the banking industry? | Jordi Gual |
Nov 2020 | Policy Note | No 209 | Are equity markets currently overvalued? The role of the time horizon in earnings expectations | Roberto Blanco and Irene Roibás |
Oct 2020 | Policy Note | No 203 | Tracking Covid: What Worked? | Markus Guetschow |
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 Brief | No 32 | More travel warnings are almost like a new lockdown for the hospitality industry | Eric Heymann |
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 Note | No 193 | Inclusive payments for the post-pandemic world | Raphael Auer, Jon Frost, Thomas Lammer, Tara Rice, Amber Wadsworth |
Jul 2020 | Policy Note | No 185 | The Macroeconomic Impact of NPLs in Euro Area Countries | Ivan Huljak, Reiner Martin, Diego Moccero, Cosimo Pancaro |
May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 11 | Simulating the distributive effects of the Macron-Merkel Recovery Fund | Friedrich Heinemann |
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 164 | Can we compare the COVID-19 and 2008 crises? | Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn |
May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 7 | Covid-19 policy response and the role of the EIB | Debora Revoltella |
May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 5 | An EU Recovery Fund: How to square the circle? | Kajus Hagelstam, Alice Zoppè, Cristina Sofia Dias |
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 159 | Embedded supervision: how to build regulation into Libra 2.0 and the token economy | Raphael Auer |
Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 156 | Navigation tools in the semi-normal corona era | Andy Langenkamp |
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 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 141 | Reforms, Reversals and the Road Ahead: Lessons from Three Decades of Transition in Central and Eastern Europe | Beata Javorcik |
Feb 2020 | Policy Note | No 131 | Populism, Economic Policies and Central Banking: an Overview | Ernest Gnan, Donato Masciandaro |
Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 107 | Tackling non-performing loans in Europe | Peter Grasmann, Markus Aspegren, Nicolas Willems |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 97 | Strengthened EU fiscal framework: fiscal discipline versus economic stabilization | Bernhard Grossmann, Gottfried Haber |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 93 | European Economic and Monetary Union: from the Past into the Future | Jean-Claude Trichet |
Jul 2019 | Policy Note | No 83 | Global economic governance at a crossroads | Carlo Monticelli |
May 2019 | Policy Note | No 71 | Rethinking the Trade-offs for Monetary Policy in an Era of Globalization | Enrique Martínez-García |
May 2019 | Policy Note | No 70 | The impact of Brexit on growth and the public finances | Iain Begg |
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 25 | The New Silk Road: Implications for Europe | Stephan Barisitz, Alice Radzyner |
Jan 2018 | Policy Note | No 23 | The occasional importance of the current account in an era of a global savings glut | Jesper Berg, Steffen Lind |
Dec 2017 | Policy Note | No 22 | Deepening the Economic and Monetary Union: the EU priorities by 2025 and beyond | Marco Buti |
Nov 2017 | Policy Note | No 20 | Recent developments in Chinese shadow banking | Michael Chui, Christian Upper |
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 |