PART I: GENERAL ASPECTS -- Chapter 1: Sustainable Finance in Europe: Setting the Scene; Danny Busch, Guido Ferrarini & Seraina Grünewald -- Chapter 2 : The European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan and Other International Initiatives; Danny Busch, Guido Ferrarini & Arthur van den...

This paper models the links between financial fragility, asset markets and monetary policy. It is shown, that central bank's concern about the cost of financial disruption generates an asymmetric response, thus contributing to the creation of an asset price bubble in an economy with a highly...

I analyze the optimal design of banking supervision in the presence of cross-border lending. Cross-border lending could imply that an individual bank failure in one country could trigger negative spillover effects in another country. Such cross-border contagion effects could turn out to be...

The 5th joint SUERF/Bank of Finland joint conference was held in Helsinki on 13 June 2013. The general theme of the conference was to focus on the regulatory reforms after the global financial crisis and, in particular, how structural reforms of banking ("Volcker, Vickers and Liikanen") could...