The euro area crisis has probably passed the acute phase, but it has entered a chronic and unstable phase of fractured credit markets, too high funding costs, very weak growth, and dim expectations. More austerity and reforms at the national level alone will not be enough to stabilize the euro...

The evolving plan for a European banking union falls short of the ideal of an "ever closer union." In fact, the plan's focus on national resolution authorities and funds for insolvent financial institutions, a minimal euro area financing backstop, and costs imposed on creditors of failed banks,...

The notes in this compilation review the main features (size, structure, etc.) of sovereign bond markets in euro area Member States and discuss, in the relation to expanded asset purchase programme (EAPP) of the ECB, the financial risks the Eurosystem is potentially taking on its balance sheet...

The notes in this compilation review the main features (size, structure, etc.) of sovereign bond markets in euro area Member States and discuss, in the relation to expanded asset purchase programme (EAPP) of the ECB, the financial risks the Eurosystem is potentially taking on its balance sheet...

As the euro area business cycle matures, will the interaction between monetary policy and supervisory policy become potentially controversial? How to avoid situations where controversy over the actions of one policy dents the credibility of the other and/or the institutions involved? And how to...