Towards an understanding of credit cycles: do all credit booms cause crises?
Macroprudential policy is now based around a countercyclical buffer, relating capital requirements for banks to the degree of excess credit in the...
DP 76
Fundamentals versus market sentiments in the euro bond markets: Implications for QE
Despite the partial realignment of European long-term government bonds after the crisis in 2012, there has been some renewed divergence in yields in...
SP 12
Interaction between monetary policy and bank regulation: Theory and European practice
The European Union has pursued a number of initiatives to create a safer and sounder financial sector for the single market. In parallel, bold...
SP 10
Sovereign bond purchases and risk sharing arrangements: Sharing: Myth and Reality of the European QE
In March, the Eurosystem started to purchase on the secondary market euro-denominated bonds issued by governments, agencies and European institutions...
SP 9