On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...

In March 2013 around 130 participants from academia, banking and finance, governments and central banking gathered at the premises of the OeNB in Vienna for a conference jointly organized by the European Money and Finance Forum SUERF, the OeNB and the Austrian Society for Bank Research to...

Die Ergebnisse der griechischen Wahlen vom Januar haben deutlich gemacht, dass die betroffene Bevölkerung eine einseitige Politik des Sparens nicht mitträgt. Auch in anderen Krisenländern regt sich Widerstand. Darüber, inwieweit und in welchen Ländern eine Austeritätspolitik durchgeführt...

The current financial, economic and fiscal crisis is among other things characterised by complex interrelations between financial, fiscal, macroeconomic and political instability. One instability breeds another, with feedback loops generating self-reinforcing adverse cycles: The financial crisis...

On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium "States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy" at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...

Die vorliegende kumulative Dissertation umfasst drei Essays, welche sich mit Fragestellungen der Geld- und Fiskalpolitik beschäftigen. Jeder Essay stellt ein Kapitel der Dissertation dar. Das erste Kapitel trägt den Titel "Heterogeneous Expectations and the Merit of Monetary Policy Inertia."...