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) |
Nov 2023 | Policy Brief | No 749 | Monetary policy transmission below zero: In search of the reversal rate | Zuzana Fungáčová, Eeva Kerola, Olli-Matti Laine |
Nov 2023 | Policy Brief | No 746 | When banks’ shadow fades and shadow banking rises: Securitization and loan performance in China | Di Gong, Jin Wu, Jigao Zhu |
Nov 2023 | Policy Brief | No 739 | How usable are capital buffers? An empirical analysis of the interaction between capital buffers and the leverage ratio since 2016 | Georg Leitner, Michal Dvořák, Alessandro Magi, Balázs Zsámboki |
Nov 2023 | Policy Brief | No 738 | Transmission of interest rate hikes depends on the level of central bank reserves held by banks | Daniel Fricke, Stefan Greppmair, Karol Paludkiewicz |
Nov 2023 | Policy Brief | No 736 | Banks’ credit forecasts excel at rank ordering but miss the evolution of losses | Martin Birn, Renzo Corrias, Christian Schmieder, Nikola Tarashev |
Nov 2023 | Policy Brief | No 735 | The Road to Paris: stress testing the transition towards a net-zero economy | Tina Emambakhsh, Maximilian Fuchs, Simon Kördel, Charalampos Kouratzoglou, Chiara Lelli, Riccardo Pizzeghello, Carmelo Salleo, Martina Spaggiari |
Nov 2023 | Policy Brief | No 732 | Quantitative easing, accounting and prudential frameworks, and bank lending | Andrea Orame, Rodney Ramcharan, Roberto Robatto |
Nov 2023 | Policy Brief | No 726 | How would banks respond to central bank digital currency? | Barbara Meller, Oscar Soons |
Nov 2023 | Policy Note | No 326 | Shrinking the Eurosystem’s footprint without offshoring the euro | Robert N McCauley |
Nov 2023 | Policy Brief | No 719 | Should credit lines be regulated? | Jose E. Gutierrez |
Oct 2023 | Policy Brief | No 713 | The state-dependent impact of changes in bank capital requirements | Jan Hannes Lang, Dominik Menno |
Oct 2023 | Policy Brief | No 709 | The Mortgage Servicing Channel: Understanding Monetary Policy Transmission through Shadow Banks | Isha Agarwal, Malin Hu, Raluca A. Roman, Keling Zheng |
Oct 2023 | Policy Brief | No 706 | Asset Prices, Collateral and Bank Lending - The Case of Covid-19 and Real Estate | Aoife Horan, Barbara Jarmulska, Ellen Ryan |
Oct 2023 | Policy Brief | No 703 | Gross bond issuance by Italian banks: key trends in times of crisis and unconventional monetary policy | Donato Ceci, Alessandro Montino, Sara Pinoli, Andrea Silvestrini |
Oct 2023 | Policy Note | No 325 | The European Commission’s crisis management and deposit insurance (CMDI) proposal increases system-wide liquidity risk and makes more banks systemic | Stefan W. Schmitz, Michaela Posch, Peter Strobl |
Oct 2023 | Policy Note | No 323 | What An Acceleration of Quantitative Tightening Could Mean For Eurozone Banks | Nicolas Charnay, Pierre Hollegien, Sylvain Broyer, Aude Guez |
Sep 2023 | Policy Note | No 322 | Central Banks: Firefighters or Pyromaniacs in Recent Crises? | Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn |
Sep 2023 | Policy Note | No 321 | Technological change and the destabilisation of bank deposits: Assessment and policy implications | Ulrich Bindseil, Richard Senner |
Sep 2023 | Policy Brief | No 687 | Fear The Walking Dead? Zombie Firms in the Euro Area and Their Effect on Healthy Firms’ Credit Conditions | Lea Katharina Havemeister, Kristian Horn |
Sep 2023 | Policy Brief | No 684 | Fear (no more) of Floating: How emerging market central banks avoided a currency meltdown during the pandemic despite purchasing local-currency assets | Yasin Mimir, Enes Sunel |
Sep 2023 | Policy Brief | No 682 | How asymmetries of information can amplify house price shocks to the supply of mortgage credit? | Salomón García |
Aug 2023 | Policy Note | No 318 | The Quest for Deposit Stability | Fernando Restoy |
Aug 2023 | Policy Note | No 316 | Peeling the onion: US bank stress not spreading to Euro area | Ravi Balakrishnan, Marco Protopapa |
Aug 2023 | Policy Brief | No 649 | Do non-banks need access to the lender-of-last-resort? Evidence from fund runs | Johannes Breckenfelder, Marie Hoerova |
Jul 2023 | Policy Brief | No 636 | A proposal for the European Green Transition via Significant Risk Transfer Securitisations | Fernando Gonzalez, Giuliano Giovannetti |
Jul 2023 | Policy Brief | No 626 | Macroprudential policy in the high inflation environment: Sailing uncharted waters | Carsten Detken, Ján Klacso, Reiner Martin |
Jun 2023 | Policy Brief | No 623 | Are firms credit constrained? Answers from a Swedish credit registry | Niklas Amberg, Tor Jacobson, Vincenzo Quadrini, Anna Rogantini Picco |
Jun 2023 | Policy Brief | No 620 | Insights into Credit Loss Rates: A Global Database | Li Lian Ong, Christian Schmieder, Min Wei |
Jun 2023 | Policy Brief | No 617 | On the effectiveness of dividend restrictions as supervisory policy tool | Ernest Dautović, Leonardo Gambacorta, Alessio Reghezza |
Jun 2023 | Policy Brief | No 610 | Climate change risks and the energy and emission allowances market – An analysis based on EMIR data | Merel Vrolijk, Ellen van der Woerd, Elisabeth de Vogel |
Jun 2023 | Policy Brief | No 609 | The effects of negative interest rates on bank market power: implications for euro area banks’ lending channel and stability | Yener Altunbas, Giuseppe Avignone, Christoffer Kok, Cosimo Pancaro |
Jun 2023 | Policy Brief | No 605 | BigTech Credit and Monetary Policy Transmission | Yiping Huang, Xiang Li, Han Qiu, Changhua Yu |
Jun 2023 | Policy Note | No 312 | Empowering central bank money for a digital future | Martin Diehl, Constantin Drott |
May 2023 | Policy Brief | No 597 | Boosting the Green Transition: Greenhouse gas emissions and bank lending | Koji Takahashi, Junnosuke Shino |
May 2023 | Policy Brief | No 596 | Reforming the Monetary System for the Digital Age | Burkhard Drees, Sunil Sharma |
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 585 | Does IFRS 9 increase banks’ resilience? | Arndt Kund, Daniel Rugilo |
Apr 2023 | Policy Note | No 309 | The Digital Euro (CBDC) as a Monetary Anchor of the Financial System | Peter Bofinger, Thomas Haas |
Apr 2023 | Policy Brief | No 562 | Loose Monetary Policy and Financial Instability | Maximilian Grimm, Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick, Alan M. Taylor |
Mar 2023 | Policy Note | No 306 | Why there is no need to stray from the original ideas behind the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive | Jesper Berg, Steffen Ulrik Lind |
Mar 2023 | Policy Brief | No 557 | A friend in need is a friend indeed? Nonbanks and lending relationships during crises | Iñaki Aldasoro, Sebastian Doerr, Haonan Zhou |
Mar 2023 | Policy Brief | No 555 | Technology and Asset Liquidations: Evidence from Real Estate Collateral | Francesco Mazzola |
Mar 2023 | Policy Brief | No 549 | CCPs United: the hidden dangers of shared clearing membership | Luitgard A. M. Veraart, Iñaki Aldasoro |
Mar 2023 | Policy Brief | No 546 | Bank lending to small firms: metamorphosis of a financing model | Paolo Finaldi Russo, Valentina Nigro, Sabrina Pastorelli |
Mar 2023 | Policy Brief | No 545 | Is the ECB Monetary Tightening Effective? The Role of Bank Funding and Asset Structure | Matjaž Volk |
Feb 2023 | Policy Brief | No 527 | Central Bank digital currencies in Africa: catching up | Enrique Alberola, Ilaria Mattei |
Feb 2023 | Policy Brief | No 516 | A scientific illusion in risk management? | José María Roldán |
Jan 2023 | Policy Brief | No 513 | Gender diversity in bank boardrooms helps to combat climate change | Leonardo Gambacorta, Livia Pancotto, Alessio Reghezza, Martina Spaggiari |
Jan 2023 | Policy Brief | No 502 | Latent Fragility: Conditioning Banks’ Joint Probability of Default on the Financial Cycle | Paul Bochmann, Paul Hiebert, Yves Schüler, Miguel Segoviano |
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 493 | Financial exposure and bank mergers - Micro and macro evidence from the EU | Laura Lebastard |
Dec 2022 | Policy Brief | No 484 | Monetary and macroprudential policy effectiveness and spillovers | Luc Laeven, Angela Maddaloni, Caterina Mendicino |
Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 474 | Cost efficiency in the euro area banking sector and the negative interest rate environment | Giuseppe Avignone, Claudia Girardone, Cosimo Pancaro, Livia Pancotto, Alessio Reghezza |
Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 473 | The Impact of Natural Disasters on Banks’ Impairment Flow – Evidence from Germany | Iliriana Shala, Benno Schumacher |
Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 467 | A tale of three crises: synergies between ECB tasks | Karin Hobelsberger, Christoffer Kok, Francesco Paolo Mongelli |
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 461 | Dual interest rates and the transmission of monetary policy | Francesca Barbiero, Lorenzo Burlon, Maria Dimou, Jan Toczynski |
Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 460 | Demystifying wholesale central bank digital currency | Fabio Panetta |
Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 457 | The Certification Role of the EU-Wide Stress Testing Exercises in the Stock Market. What Can We Learn from the Stress Tests (2014-2021)? | Agha Durrani, Steven Ongena, Aurea Ponte Marques |
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 454 | Augmented credit-to-GDP gap as a more reliable indicator for macroprudential policy decision-making | Tihana Škrinjarić |
Oct 2022 | Policy Brief | No 450 | Are Liability Driven Investors (LDIs) a liability for policymakers? | Giacomo Carboni, Martin Ellison |
Oct 2022 | Policy Brief | No 444 | How do central bank lending operations interact with equity offering announcements? | Massimo Giuliodori, Jan Kakes, Dimitris Mokas |
Oct 2022 | Policy Brief | No 441 | The digital revolution in banking: The old, the new and the ugly | José María Roldán |
Oct 2022 | Policy Brief | No 435 | Using household-level data to guide borrower-based macro-prudential policy | Gastón Andrés Giordana, Michael Heinrich Ziegelmeyer |
Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 430 | Central bank capital | Paul Wessels, Dirk Broeders |
Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 424 | Information Transmission between Banks and the Market for Corporate Control | Christian Bittner, Falko Fecht, Melissa Pala, Farzad Saidi |
Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 409 | A model of system-wide stress simulation: market-based finance and the COVID-19 event | Giovanni di Iasio, Giulio Nicoletti, Nicholas Vause |
Aug 2022 | Policy Note | No 286 | The optimal quantity of CBDC in the euro area | Lorenzo Burlon, Carlos Montes-Galdón, Manuel A. Muñoz, Frank Smets |
Jul 2022 | Policy Brief | No 387 | Climate Change-Related Regulatory Risks and Bank Lending | Isabella Mueller, Eleonora Sfrappini |
Jun 2022 | Policy Note | No 281 | CBDC and Bank Intermediation in the Euro Area | Ramón Adalid, Álvaro Álvarez-Blázquez, Katrin Assenmacher, et al. |
Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 344 | Elections Hinder Firms’ Access to Credit | Florian Léon, Laurent Weill |
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 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 Note | No 272 | Financing Faster Growth For Europe’s SMEs | Sylvain Broyer, Sarah Limbach, Cihan Duran |
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 |
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 |
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 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 Note | No 252 | Forging the Future of Monetary Union – taking stock and looking forward | Markus Rodlauer, Rolf Strauch |
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 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 Note | No 248 | The Future of Bitcoin | Wim Boonstra |
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 |
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 78 | Not all debt is bank debt: Nonbank borrowing in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe | Katharina Allinger, Elisabeth Beckmann |
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 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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 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 126 | Bank resolution, the need to recognize reality in order to prepare for the next crisis | Jesper Berg, Henrik Bjerre-Nielsen |
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 |
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 102 | How to improve crisis management in the banking union: a European FDIC? | Fernando Restoy |
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 82 | Rethinking Capital Regulation: The Case for a Dividend Prudential Target in the Euro Area | Manuel Muñoz |
Apr 2019 | Policy Note | No 65 | A New Horizon | Mark Carney |
Dec 2018 | Policy Note | No 49 | Bank business models: time to act | Rudi Vander Vennet |
Aug 2018 | Policy Note | No 40 | 21st century cash: Central banking, technological innovation and digital currencies | Fabio Panetta |
Feb 2018 | Policy Note | No 26 | Comparability of Basel risk weights in the EU banking sector | Zsofia Döme, Stefan Kerbl |
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 |
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 |