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) |
Dec 2023 | Policy Brief | No 752 | Joint sovereign debt issuance: old questions, new results | Daniel P. Monteiro |
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 742 | Foreign economic policy uncertainty shocks and real activity in the Euro area | Filippo Arigoni, Črt Lenarčič |
Nov 2023 | Policy Note | No 326 | Shrinking the Eurosystem’s footprint without offshoring the euro | Robert N McCauley |
Oct 2023 | Policy Brief | No 702 | A two-tier system of minimum reserve requirements by De Grauwe and Ji (2023): A closer look | Claudia Kwapil |
Sep 2023 | Policy Note | No 320 | Leaving the eurozone but staying in the EU. Can it be done? And is it wise? | Wim Boonstra |
Aug 2023 | Policy Brief | No 665 | The Economics of Public Policy Leaks: New Evidence from Central Banking | Michael Ehrmann, Phillipp Gnan, Kilian Rieder |
Aug 2023 | Policy Brief | No 661 | Forecasting banknote circulation during the COVID-19 pandemic using structural time series models | Nikolaus Bartzsch, Marco Brandi, Lucas Devigne, Raymond de Pastor, Gianluca Maddaloni, Diana Posada Restrepo, Gabriele Sene |
Aug 2023 | Policy Brief | No 660 | Central clearing in turbulent times: frontiers in regulation and oversight | Fabio Panetta |
Aug 2023 | Policy Note | No 317 | The European Commission Proposals for Reform of the Stability and Growth Pact: On the right track but not there yet | Jakob de Haan, Fabian Amtenbrink |
Jul 2023 | Policy Brief | No 643 | Consumer Savings Behaviour at Low and Negative Interest Rates | Marco Felici, Geoff Kenny, Roberta Friz |
Jul 2023 | Policy Brief | No 640 | Solving the enforcement dilemma of the EU fiscal rules | Paul Dermine, Martin Larch |
Jul 2023 | Policy Note | No 315 | Privatization Effects on Central and Eastern European Enterprises: An Empirical Framework from a Bibliometric Analysis | Margerita Topalli, Silvester Ivanaj |
Jul 2023 | Policy Brief | No 633 | Gauging the macroeconomic effects of higher carbon prices | Günter Coenen, Matija Lozej, Romanos Priftis |
Jun 2023 | Policy Brief | No 613 | A common tool for a greener future: The case for an EU Climate and Energy Security Fund | Laurent Abraham, Marguerite O’Connell, Iñigo Arruga Oleaga |
Jun 2023 | Policy Brief | No 612 | Digital Euro: An assessment of the first two progress reports | Dirk Niepelt |
Jun 2023 | Policy Brief | No 611 | Sovereign exposures of European banks - revisited | Heike Mai |
Jun 2023 | Policy Brief | No 603 | Alexandre Lamfalussy and the origins of instability in capitalist economies | Ivo Maes |
May 2023 | Policy Brief | No 591 | What to expect after “effortless” debt reduction in the euro area? | Matthias Reith |
May 2023 | Policy Brief | No 588 | The digital euro: a precautionary device, not a deus-ex-machina | Ignazio Angeloni |
Apr 2023 | Policy Brief | No 571 | Has the euro changeover really caused extra inflation in Croatia? | Matteo Falagiarda, Christine Gartner, Ivan Mužić, Andreja Pufnik |
Apr 2023 | Policy Brief | No 564 | The Stability and Growth Pact three decades later | Juhana Hukkinen, Matti Viren |
Mar 2023 | Policy Brief | No 543 | How shocks to Chinese supply chains affect US and euro area manufacturing | Makram Khalil, Marc-Daniel Weber |
Feb 2023 | Policy Note | No 301 | Consistent economic policies: a prerequisite for macroeconomic stability | Pablo Hernández de Cos |
Feb 2023 | Policy Brief | No 524 | Highly Dispersed inflation rates challenge the ECB’s monetary policy strategy | Thomas Url |
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 |
Feb 2023 | Policy Brief | No 518 | ECB Significant-Bank Risk Profile and COVID-19 Crisis Containment Phase: What Approach in the Transitioning Phase? | Bozena Gulija, Costanza Russo, Dalvinder Singh |
Feb 2023 | Policy Note | No 299 | Convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU at the time of COVID-19 | Mirko Licchetta, Giovanni Mattozz |
Feb 2023 | Policy Note | No 297 | Risk reduction vs risk sharing: A sticking point in the ongoing review of the EU fiscal framework? | Martin Larch, Matthias Busse, Mateja Gabrijelcic, Laszlo Jankovics, Janis Malzubris |
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 510 | Bank and non-bank balance sheet responses to monetary policy shocks | Fédéric Holm-Hadulla, Falk Mazelis, Sebastian Rast |
Jan 2023 | Policy Brief | No 509 | EU fiscal rules 2.0, more carrot than stick plus greenwashing? | Matthias Reith, Gunter Deuber |
Dec 2022 | Policy Brief | No 494 | Introducing Green Bank Equity to fund the low-carbon transition | Aaron Janowski |
Nov 2022 | Policy Brief | No 469 | The safe asset potential of EU-issued bonds | Tilman Bletzinger, William Greif, Bernd Schwaab |
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 Note | No 292 | The complex task of reforming the EU’s electricity market - Intervention options proposed by the European Commission | Cristian Stet, Pablo Ruiz, Susan Hansen |
Oct 2022 | Policy Note | No 291 | Monetary policy and inflation: recent developments | Ignazio Visco |
Sep 2022 | Policy Note | No 290 | Seven Trends That Will Shape European Power Purchase Agreements’ Path To Growth | Cristian Stet |
Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 413 | The EU gas savings plan ahead of a long winter | Marco Protopapa |
Aug 2022 | Policy Note | No 285 | From SEPA to the digital euro: payments past, present and future | Johannes Asel, Simone Mingione, Petia Niederlaender, Georg Nitsche |
Jul 2022 | Policy Brief | No 371 | How household savings in CESEE are related to the past and the future | Melanie Koch, Thomas Scheiber |
Jul 2022 | Policy Brief | No 370 | Too little too late: ECB’s normalisation path was model- rather than data-driven | Daniel Gros, Farzaneh Shamsfakhr |
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 347 | Sectoral exchange rate pass-through in the euro area | Chiara Osbat, Yiqiao Sun, Martin Wagner |
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 |
Jun 2022 | Policy Note | No 280 | Should the ECB consider issuing its own securities? | Wim Boonstra, Bas van Geffen |
May 2022 | Policy Brief | No 335 | Macroeconomic Implications and Differences of Oil and Gas Price Shocks | Thomas Zörner, Nico Petz |
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 |
Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 272 | Financing Faster Growth For Europe’s SMEs | Sylvain Broyer, Sarah Limbach, Cihan Duran |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 301 | Is the ECB applying lessons from the past? | Anselm Küsters |
Mar 2022 | Policy Brief | No 292 | The role of systemic risk spillovers in the transmission of Euro Area monetary policy | Alexandros Skouralis |
Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 268 | Crisis-tested Europe – Solidarity with Ukraine spurs European identity | Heinz Handler |
Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 267 | Towards a single operational indicator in the SGP – A look at the properties of the current expenditure benchmark | Nicholai Benalal, Maximilian Freier, Wim Melyn, Stefan Van Parys, Lukas Reiss |
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 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 |
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 255 | Climate actions and macro-financial stability: The role of central banks | Francesca Diluiso, Barbara Annicchiarico, Matthias Kalkuhl, Jan. C. Minx |
Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 235 | Does one (unconventional) size fit all? Effects of the ECB’s unconventional monetary policies on the euro area economies | Maria Sole Pagliari |
Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 234 | Optimism is bad for fiscal outcomes | Martin Larch, Janis Malzubris, Matthias Busse |
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 201 | Basel III implementation in the European Union | Pablo Hernández de Cos |
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 Brief | No 193 | The effect of Eurosystem asset purchase programmes on euro area sovereign bond yields during the COVID-19 pandemic | George Hondroyiannis, Dimitrios Papaoikonomou |
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 150 | Digital euro has potential in the Netherlands | Michiel Bijlsma, Carin van der Cruijsen, Nicole Jonker and Jelmer Reijerink |
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 |
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 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 126 | Intergenerational macroeconomics | Gabriel Makhlouf |
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 105 | Monetary policy space and monetary policy strategies for the euro area | Markus Haavio, Olli-Matti Laine |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 95 | A digital euro to meet the expectations of Europeans | Fabio Panetta |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 94 | Climate risks and collateral: a methodological experiment | Pierre-François Weber, Bünyamin Erkan, Antoine Oustry, Romain Svartzman |
May 2021 | Policy Note | No 239 | How to prevent a too restrictive fiscal policy in Europe? | Wim Boonstra |
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 |
May 2021 | Policy Brief | No 86 | The Bewildering Effects of COVID-19 and Other Recessions on Forecast Accuracy Measurements | Boriss Siliverstovs |
May 2021 | Policy Note | No 234 | Building-back-better after the Covid-19 crisis in Europe: The twin transition and divergence | Marco Buti, István P. Székely |
Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 75 | Europe: the shock of Covid-19 and the fear of accelerated zombification | Hélène Baudchon, Louis Boisset, Guillaume Derrien, Kenza Charef |
Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 68 | Banking union - achievements and challenges | Luis de Guindos |
Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 65 | EMU deepening and sovereign debt spreads: using political space to achieve policy space | Iván Kataryniuk, Víctor Mora-Bajén, Javier J. Pérez |
Mar 2021 | Policy Brief | No 53 | Who has purchased euro area debt since the start of the health crisis? | Olivier Sirello |
Feb 2021 | Policy Brief | No 48 | Crisis management for medium-sized banks: the case for a European approach | Andrea Enria |
Nov 2020 | Policy Brief | No 36 | A stronger voice for Europe in global development | Werner Hoyer |
Nov 2020 | Policy Brief | No 35 | Keynes and Schumpeter are what the European economy needs right now | Sylvain Broyer |
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 |
Sep 2020 | Policy Brief | No 27 | To each crisis its analogy, to each analogy its critical reflection | Robert Holzmann |
Sep 2020 | Policy Brief | No 26 | Global value chains and the challenge of Covid-19 | Antoine Berthou, Juan Carluccio, Guillaume Gaulier |
Sep 2020 | Policy Note | No 192 | A rule-based monetary strategy for the European Central Bank: a call for monetary stability | Juan E. Castañeda |
Aug 2020 | Policy Note | No 190 | Finland and monetary policy through three crises | Tuomas Välimäki and Meri Obstbaum |
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 Brief | No 24 | The big debt surge | Ralph Solveen |
Aug 2020 | Policy Note | No 186 | European Recovery Fund: Sceptics Q&A | Reza Moghadam, Jacob Nell, Joao Almeida, Bruna Skarica, Markus Guetschow |
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 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 19 | Banking between two crises | Karel Lannoo |
Jun 2020 | Policy Note | No 178 | Covalization: Europe on the Rack Between Globalization and Covid - A Historian’s Perspective on the European Union: Europe and Globalization | Harold James |
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 173 | A first look at fiscal dynamics in the Euro area after COVID-19: the case for a shift in the fiscal governance system | Marco Protopapa |
Jun 2020 | Policy Note | No 174 | The international role of the euro | Marco Buti |
May 2020 | Policy Note | No 172 | Does the EU convergence machine still work and how will the Covid-19 crisis impact it? | Patrick Bisciari, Dennis Essers, Evelien Vincent |
May 2020 | Policy Note | No 168 | Cross-border consolidation in the European banking sector: between dreams and reality | Jan Van Hove |
May 2020 | Policy Brief | No 10 | German Constitutional Court vs ECB: Law, Economics and Politics | Donato Masciandaro |
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 163 | Coronavirus and the world of work | Monika Kiss |
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 |
May 2020 | Policy Note | No 161 | Shh, don’t say it! ECB Helicopter Money: Economics and Politics | Donato Masciandaro |
Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 160 | Interlinking Europe’s recovery plan and the next EU budget | Kevin Körner and Barbara Böttcher |
Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 157 | The search for the right European Financing Instruments in the Corona Pandemic - ESM Liquidity Assistance versus Corona Bonds | Friedrich Heinemann |
Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 155 | The range of different opinions and moods in Germany on collective ‘corona bonds’ | Ingobert Waltenberger |
Apr 2020 | Policy Note | No 150 | How deep will it fall? Comparing the euro area recessions of 2020 and 2009 | Andreas Breitenfellner, Paul Ramskogler |
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 144 | Euro Area Economics: Putting the OOH into HICP | Jacob Nell, Bruna Skarica, Joao Almeida, Markus Guetschow |
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 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 |
Jan 2020 | Policy Note | No 121 | The quest for policy scope: Implications for monetary policy strategies | Klaas Knot |
Nov 2019 | Policy Note | No 113 | Ten years after Lehman, is the financial system safer? | Denis Beau |
Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 107 | Tackling non-performing loans in Europe | Peter Grasmann, Markus Aspegren, Nicolas Willems |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 99 | The euro’s global role: past, present and future | Arnaud Mehl |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 98 | Making the most of the EMU: Challenges and opportunities for structural reforms | Luiz de Mello |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 96 | Reconciling risk sharing with market discipline: A constructive approach to euro area reform | Isabel Schnabel |
Sep 2019 | Policy Note | No 93 | European Economic and Monetary Union: from the Past into the Future | Jean-Claude Trichet |
Jun 2019 | Policy Note | No 77 | Thoughts for a third EU Referendum: Revoke Article 50 OR Leave with “a” deal | Graham Bishop |
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 72 | Analysing the Economics of BREXIT and World Trade | David T. Llewellyn |
Mar 2019 | Policy Note | No 62 | Market power: a complex reality | Peter Praet |
Feb 2019 | Policy Note | No 55 | Europe needs reforms for inclusive growth. Do Europeans agree? | Pier Carlo Padoan |
Oct 2018 | Policy Note | No 44 | A Financial Union for the Euro Area | Poul M. Thomsen |
Jun 2018 | Policy Note | No 36 | Temporary Eurobill Fund (TEF): 30 FAQs | Graham Bishop |
May 2018 | Policy Note | No 35 | Strengthening the euro area Architecture: A proposal for Purple bonds | Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Michala Marcussen |
May 2018 | Policy Note | No 34 | Modern financial repression in the euro area crisis: making high public debt sustainable? | Ad van Riet |
Apr 2018 | Policy Note | No 30 | In the euro area, discipline is of the essence, but risk-sharing is no less important | Daniel Daianu |
Jan 2018 | Policy Note | No 25 | The New Silk Road: Implications for Europe | Stephan Barisitz, Alice Radzyner |
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 21 | Risk sharing in EMU: key insights from a literature review | Demosthenes Ioannou, David Schäfer |
Mar 2017 | Policy Note | No 11 | Completing the architecture of the Euro | Lorenzo Bini Smaghi |
May 2016 | Policy Note | No 7 | Ten Myths in the Brexit Debate | David T. Llewellyn |