Die Geldpolitik hat mit unkonventionellen Maßnahmen wie Negativzinsen und dem Ankauf von Anleihen maßgeblich zur Eindämmung der Finanz- und Staatsschuldenkrise im Euroraum beigetragen. Eine lang anhaltende Niedrigzinspolitik beinhaltet allerdings erhebliche Risiken für die Finanzstabilität....

On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...

On 11 March 2015, SUERF jointly organised a conference with the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Austrian Society for Bank Research (Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft - BWG). The present SUERF Study 2015/2 includes a selection of papers based on the authors' contributions to the Vienna...

Using data for a large sample of banks from 31 OECD countries over 1995–2018, we analyze the impact of belonging to a banking group on banks’ net interest margins. Our results confirm a positive relationship between interest rates and interest margins, which is stronger in a low-interest...