The predominant role of cross border financial flows for macroeconomic and financial stability has imposed complex policy trade-offs for emerging economies, especially after the global financial crisis. This note provides a brief account of the macroprudential policy approach adopted in Turkey...

This paper analyzes two instruments - asset-based reserve requirements put forward by Thomas Palley and asset-based capital requirements proposed by Charles Goodhart and Avinash Persaud - regarding their merits in reducing excessive asset price inflation. A theoretical framework of asset pricing...

The green bond market has grown strongly in recent years, especially in the euro area. With regard to the European Union's climate targets, it is likely that the demand for green bonds-bonds that specifically support sustainable projects-will continue to increase in the future. The European...

Der Markt für grüne Anleihen insbesondere aus dem Euroraum ist in den vergangenen Jahren stark gewachsen. Mit Blick auf die angestrebten Klimaziele der Europäischen Union ist anzunehmen, dass die Nachfrage nach Bonds, die gezielt nachhaltige Projekte fördern, künftig weiter steigen wird....

This paper evaluates inflation forecasts made by Norges Bank which is a successful forecast targeting central bank. It is expected that Norges Bank produces inflation forecasts that are on average better than other forecasts, both naive forecasts, and forecasts from econometric models outside...

Recently, convincing evidence has been presented that the recession in the wake of the recent financial crisis resulted primarily from an overly levered housing sector that was forced to deleverage and cut consumption spending when faced with collapsing housing prices. Following this...

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. The impact of Covid-19 and...

As well as implementing the common monetary policy, the national central banks (NCBs) which, together with the European Central Bank (ECB) form the Eurosystem, are also responsible for performing a range of national tasks. Among other things, these include the management of their financial...

Neben der Durchführung geldpolitischer Operationen nehmen die nationalen Zentralbanken des Eurosystems eine Reihe von nationalen Aufgaben in eigener Verantwortung wahr. Dazu zählt auch die Verwaltung ihrer Portfolios. Damit dies nicht in Konflikt mit der Durchführung der gemeinsamen...