Current account imbalances in the EMU: An assessment of official policy responses by Dodig Nina, Herr Hansjörg

“…To handle the sovereign debt crisis in general and macroeconomic imbalances in particular the leading EU institutions and the Troika (European Central Bank, European Commission and International Monetary Fund) adopted two broad approaches: The short-term approach is based on enhancing the Stability and Growth Pact and to impose fiscal austerity on crisis countries. …”
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Reforma Administrativa das Freguesias Portuguesas 2013 by Margarida Pereira, Alexandre Domingues, José Afonso Teixeira, Cristina Delgado Henriques

“…This paper discusses the territorial reform in Portuguese parishes in 2013 following the bailout from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission (Troika). …”
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Editorial: (10 years) Water-energy-food nexus: Impact of climate variability and change on the water-energy-food nexus by Marco Gaetani, Andrej Ceglar, Arona Diedhiou, Sonia Jerez, Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca, Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca, Benjamin Sultan

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El régimen de supervisión, inspección y sanción del Banco de España en la Ley 10/2014 by Carmen Chinchilla Marín

“…Additionally, it takes into account of the novelty of the shared exercise among the Bank of Spain and the European Central Bank of some powers regarding credit institutions as a consequence of the establishment and coming into force of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). …”

Climate protection as an opportunity for banks to increase earnings and consumer trust by Sabrina Kiszka, Jessica Hastenteufel

“…In addition to the ongoing cheap money policy of the European Central Bank, a regulated market environment and a rapidly progressive digitization, financial institutions are increasingly confronted with topics such as sustainability and climate protection. …”
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Household Money Holdings in the Euro Area: an explorative investigation by Franz Seitz, Julian von Landesberger

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Examining Impact of Inflation and Inflation Volatility on Economic Growth: Evidence from European Union Economies by Anastasios Pappas, Nikolaos Boukas

“…Since the negative effects of monetary tightening on growth are clear, while the benefits of rapidly reducing inflation on economic growth are ambiguous, the European Central Bank must be cautious about both the intensity and the duration of monetary tightening.…”
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THE INDEPENDENCE OF CENTRAL BANKS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE-A MONETARY POLICY STRATEGY BASED APPROACH by Popescu Iulian Vasile

“…The present paper aims to examine the trends of the last decade and a half of central banks independence (CBI) in Central and Eastern European countries on the road to the euro adoption and to compare the results with those identified in the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). We approached CBI from the perspective of monetary policy strategies central banks (CBs) use. …”
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Covid-19, sovereign risk and monetary policy: Evidence from the European Monetary Union by Seçil Yıldırım Karaman

“…This paper investigates the impact of Covid-19 pandemic and monetary policy measures adopted by the European Central Bank (ECB) on the sovereign risk for the European Monetary Union (EMU) countries for the period between March-2020 and November-2020 using daily data. …”
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Domestication of the Euro Crisis: Legal and Political Manifestations of Euroscepticism in Germany by Nicole Scicluna

“…In the legal arena, the powerful German Constitutional Court (GCC) has heard complaints on several key rescue measures, including the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European Central Bank’s (ECB) bond buying programme. The Court’s ruminations on these initiatives both reflect and feed German eurosceptics’ concerns. …”
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Domestication of the Euro Crisis: Legal and Political Manifestations of Euroscepticism in Germany by Nicole Scicluna

“…In the legal arena, the powerful German Constitutional Court (GCC) has heard complaints on several key rescue measures, including the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European Central Bank’s (ECB) bond buying programme. The Court’s ruminations on these initiatives both reflect and feed German eurosceptics’ concerns. …”
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Unknown Future of the Banking Union’s Third Pillar by Klaudia Zielińska

“…The relevant data used came from the European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority. …”
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Risk, capital buffers and bank lending: The adjustment of euro area banks by Laurent Maurin, Mervi Toivanen

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An Adaptive Neural Network Approach To Predict The Capital Adequacy Ratio by Giacomo Di Tollo, Gerarda Fattoruso, Bartolomeo Toffano

“…Financial institutions, policy makers and regulatory authorities need to implement stress tests in order to test both resilience and the consequences of adverse shocks. The European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority regularly conduct these tests, whose importance is more and more evident after the financial crisis of 2007-2008. …”
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The Effect of Quantitative Easing on Inflation in Korea by Min-Ho Nam

“…In an additional analysis assessing the impact of each quantitative easing program of the central banks, only those of the Fed and European Central Bank are estimated to be significant. The empirical results prove to be robust even if using long-term interest rates as an alternative indicator of quantitative easing.…”
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Disentangling the information content of government bonds and credit default swaps: An empirical analysis on sovereigns and banks by Michele Leonardo Bianchi, Marco Rocco

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The Effect of Targeted Monetary Policy on Bank Lending by Olli-Matti Laine

“…It utilizes data from the European Central Bank’s targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs) together with monthly bank level balance sheet data from multiple countries. …”
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Generalized Market Uncertainty Measurement in European Stock Markets in Real Time by Jorge M. Uribe, Montserrat Guillen

“…We show that generalized uncertainty in Europe was, indeed, at historically high levels in the wake of the recent public health crisis before the large interventions by the European Central Bank, the Fed, and the Bank of England, but also that, for some markets, recently recorded uncertainty levels were still lower than those recorded during the Global Financial Crisis, which puts things into perspective. …”
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Multiplicadores fiscales en la zona euro by Pablo Burriel, Francisco de Castro, Daniel Garrote, Esther Gordo, Joan Paredes, Javier J. Pérez

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Fiscal integration of the monetary union – the solution against fragmentation by Irene Ioana DRĂGHICI, Laurențiu Mihai TĂNASE, Robert Ștefan URICARU

“…Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, financial fragmentation was overturned by a set of European Central Bank monetary policy expansionary measures and by the EU’s decision to implement a fiscal capacity centered on temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) and the program of the Next Generation EU (NGEU). …”
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