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 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 736 | Banks’ credit forecasts excel at rank ordering but miss the evolution of losses | Martin Birn, Renzo Corrias, Christian Schmieder, Nikola Tarashev |
| Oct 2023 | Policy Brief | No 713 | The state-dependent impact of changes in bank capital requirements | Jan Hannes Lang, Dominik Menno |
| Sep 2023 | Policy Brief | No 681 | To use or not to use? Capital buffers and lending during a crisis | Vítor Oliveira, Diogo Serra |
| Aug 2023 | Policy Brief | No 648 | European bank performance – as good as it gets, despite recent wobbles? | Jan Schildbach |
| Aug 2023 | Policy Brief | No 647 | Technology to combat climate change: where is investment flowing? | Giulio Cornelli, Jon Frost, Leonardo Gambacorta, Ouarda Merrouche |
| Jul 2023 | Policy Brief | No 629 | Macroprudential policy is a key defense line against global financial shocks | Katharina Bergant, Francesco Grigoli, Niels-Jakob Hansen, Damiano Sandri |
| Jul 2023 | Policy Brief | No 627 | Thirty Years Of The EU Single Market: Why Cross-Border Capital Flows Remain Sluggish, Despite Positive Developments | Sylvain Broyer, Aude Guez |
| Jul 2023 | Policy Brief | No 626 | Macroprudential policy in the high inflation environment: Sailing uncharted waters | Carsten Detken, Ján Klacso, Reiner Martin |
| Apr 2023 | Policy Brief | No 563 | Regulators as Risk Managers: Macroprudential Policy through a Risk Management Lens | Daniel Dimitrov, Sweder van Wijnbergen |
| Apr 2023 | Policy Brief | No 561 | Leaning against the Global Financial Cycle | Andrea Ferrero, Maurizio Michael Habib, Livio Stracca, Fabrizio Venditti |
| 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 |
| Jan 2023 | Policy Brief | No 505 | Adjusted regulation can improve capital buffer usability | Ianna Georgieva Yordanova |
| Jan 2023 | Policy Brief | No 504 | Introduction of the composite indicator of cyclical systemic risk in Croatia: possibilities and limitations | Tihana Škrinjarić |
| Dec 2022 | Policy Brief | No 497 | European Small Business Finance Outlook: SMEs in between crises | Helmut Kraemer-Eis, Antonia Botsari, Salome Gvetadze, Frank Lang, Wouter Torfs |
| 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 444 | How do central bank lending operations interact with equity offering announcements? | Massimo Giuliodori, Jan Kakes, Dimitris Mokas |
| Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 430 | Central bank capital | Paul Wessels, Dirk Broeders |
| Sep 2022 | Policy Brief | No 414 | The effects of Monetary Policy on Capital Flows: A Meta-Analysis | Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas, Lucía Arango-Lozano, Geraldine Castelblanco-Arias, Nicolás Fajardo-Baquero, María A. Ruiz-Sánchez |
| Aug 2022 | Policy Brief | No 389 | Digital Endowments and Comparative Advantage | Dario Guarascio, Roman Stöllinger |
| Jun 2022 | Policy Brief | No 352 | An innovative new measure of human capital to better assess the link between education policies and productivity | Balázs Égert, Christine de la Maisonneuve, David Turner |
| Mar 2022 | Policy Note | No 272 | Financing Faster Growth For Europe’s SMEs | Sylvain Broyer, Sarah Limbach, Cihan Duran |
| Jan 2022 | Policy Brief | No 258 | Why have interest rates fallen far below the return on capital? | Magali Marx, Benoît Mojon, François R. Velde |
| 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 |
| 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 248 | Africa and COVID-19: Can the financial sector stay on course for a green and digital future? | Debora Revoltella, Claudio Cali, Barbara Marchitto, Nina Fenton, Ricardo Santos |
| 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 225 | Population aging and the persistence of three key global trends | Andrea Papetti |
| Nov 2021 | Policy Brief | No 213 | The role of prudential policy in addressing climate change | Fernando Restoy |
| 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 201 | Basel III implementation in the European Union | Pablo Hernández de Cos |
| 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 |
| Sep 2021 | Policy Brief | No 184 | Frozen markets: Iceland’s experience with capital controls | Francis Breedon, Thórarinn G. Pétursson, Paolo Vitale |
| Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 167 | Limits of stress-test based bank regulation | Tirupam Goel, Isha Agarwal |
| Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 166 | Record global FX reserves after COVID shock | Michael S Hanson |
| Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 165 | Assessment of the effectiveness of the macroprudential measures implemented in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic | Lucas Avezum, Vítor Oliveira, Diogo Serra |
| Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 164 | Banks Fearing the Drought? Liquidity Hoarding as a Response to Idiosyncratic Interbank Funding Dry-Ups | Helge C.N. Littke, Matias Ossandon Busch |
| Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 159 | On the Effectiveness of Macroprudential Policy | Miguel Ampudia, Marco Lo Duca, Mátyás Farkas, Gabriel Perez Quiros, Mara Pirovano, Gerhard Rünstler, Eugen Tereanu |
| 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 147 | Proportionality in banking regulation: who, what and how? | Raihan Zamil |
| Aug 2021 | Policy Brief | No 144 | A quantitative analysis of the countercyclical capital buffer | Miguel Faria e Castro |
| Jul 2021 | Policy Brief | No 138 | Three questions on the outlook for banking | Carolyn Rogers |
| 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 |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Note | No 246 | Integrated policy frameworks: The constraints of policy horizons and adjustment frequencies | Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat |
| Jun 2021 | Policy Brief | No 100 | Shocks to bank capital as a driver of lending standards to corporates. What can macroprudential policy learn from bank lending surveys? | Ewa Wróbel |
| 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 93 | Set-up costs and the financing of young firms | François Derrien, Jean-Stéphane Mésonnier, Guillaume Vuillemey |
| 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 81 | How the Capital Markets Union can help Europe avoid a liquidity trap | Sylvain Broyer |
| Apr 2021 | Policy Brief | No 76 | The Impact of COVID-19 on European Banks | Shekhar Aiyar, Mai Chi Dao, Andreas A. Jobst, Aiko Mineshima, Srobona Mitra, Mahmood Pradhan |
| 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 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 227 | Scarring in Europe | Reza Moghadam, Markus Guetschow, Camille White |
| Mar 2021 | Policy Brief | No 54 | Are lower bank capital requirements an efficient policy tool for supporting credit to SMEs? | Michel Dietsch, Henri Fraisse, Mathias Lé, Sandrine Lecarpentier |
| Feb 2021 | Policy Brief | No 49 | Should developed economies manage international capital flows? An empirical and welfare analysis | Dennis Bonam, Gavin Goy, Emmanuel de Veirman |
| 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 210 | On the risk-adjusted performance of machine learning models in credit default prediction | Andres Alonso, Jose Manuel Carbo |
| Nov 2020 | Policy Note | No 204 | Lessons from the Swedish anti-corona strategy | Lieven Noppe |
| 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 187 | Measuring Regulatory Complexity | Jean-Edouard Colliard, Co-Pierre Georg |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Mar 2020 | Policy Note | No 139 | Capital Regulations and the Management of Credit Commitments during Crisis Times | Paul Pelzl, María Teresa Valderrama |
| Feb 2020 | Policy Note | No 132 | The European Banking Union | Margarita Delgado |
| Jan 2020 | Policy Note | No 127 | Europe’s role in the global financial system | Luis de Guindos |
| Nov 2019 | Policy Note | No 110 | Towards a European Governance Framework for Cryptoassets | Jason Grant Allen, Rosa María Lastra |
| Oct 2019 | Policy Note | No 107 | Tackling non-performing loans in Europe | Peter Grasmann, Markus Aspegren, Nicolas Willems |
| Aug 2019 | Policy Note | No 91 | How to Make Capitalism Work for All? | Anita Angelovska Bezhoska |
| 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 68 | How to assess the adequacy of capital requirements based on internal models? | Susanne Roehrig |
| Oct 2018 | Policy Note | No 44 | A Financial Union for the Euro Area | Poul M. Thomsen |
| Oct 2018 | Policy Note | No 43 | A Green Supporting Factor — The Right Policy? | Jacob Dankert, Lars van Doorn, Henk Jan Reinders, Olaf Sleijpen |
| May 2018 | Policy Note | No 35 | Strengthening the euro area Architecture: A proposal for Purple bonds | Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Michala Marcussen |
| 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 21 | Risk sharing in EMU: key insights from a literature review | Demosthenes Ioannou, David Schäfer |
| May 2017 | Policy Note | No 12 | (No) worries about the new shape of international capital flows | Matthieu Bussiére, Julia Schmidt, Natacha Valla |
| 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 |
