The global financial crisis in 2007 prompted policy makers to introduce a combination of bank regulation and macroprudential policies, including non-conventional monetary policies, such as interest on reserves and changes in required reserves. This paper examines how the combination of such...

On the basis of the European Commission’s 2015 Action Plan “on Building a Capital Markets Union” (CMU), as further specified in the 2017 “Mid-Term Review of the [CMU] Action Plan”, the European Parliament and the Council adopted on 27 November 2019 Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 “on...

The EU Taxonomy Regulation (TR), adopted in 2019, is a key milestone in defining legally sustainable activities. It should be viewed within the context of the climate and energy targets set by the EU for 2030 in order to become climate-neutral by 2050, and constitutes, along with the Sustainable...