Publications

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Christian Schaette, Warren Meade, Monica Monaco, Bernd Berbänder, Mathieu Jolly, Sophie Thiéry, Victoria Richmond

This Edition includes four articles reflecting some of the debates held in the context of the ECRI Task Force on household credit and places some emphasis on digital banking and new/related busines

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Proper understanding and monitoring of household saving are necessary to conduct appropriate macroeconomic policies aiming at a balanced economic recovery in the EU-15.

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There are two main objectives behind the EC proposal on banking structural reform: the financial stability objective and the economic efficiency objective.

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Maria Chiara Malaguti, Alessandra Guerrieri

Two-sided payment card markets generate costs that have to be distributed among the participating actors. For this purpose, payment card networks set an interchange fee, which is the fee paid by the merchant’s bank to the cardholder’s bank per transaction.

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Ales Chmelar

This paper sketches the main features and issues related to recent market developments in global transaction banking (GTB), particularly in trade finance, cash management and correspondent banking. It describes the basic functioning of the GTB, its interaction with global financial markets and re-lated implications of global regulatory developments such as Basel III.

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Ales Chmelar

The fall in economic output all over Europe since 2008 has had important consequences for household liabilities. Major growth in demand and supply for household credit products has generated an increase in household debt, which contributed to growth rates during the pre-crisis period but – in some countries – became household-debt overhangs and helped inflate asset bubbles.

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Frederic Helsen, Ales Chmelar

European-wide data concerning both companies and households indicate that the credit rationing phenomenon, which has been predicted by theory, does in fact occur to a significant degree in the Euro

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Ales Chmelar

The second-dip recession in Europe’s periphery has created a poisonous mix, which risks threatening further the financial system and the economy.

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Elina Pyykkö

The Data Protection Regulation proposed by the European Commission contains important elements to facilitate and secure personal data flows within the Single Market.

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