The prolonged crisis exposed the vulnerability of a monetary union without a banking union. The Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), which started operating in November 2014, is an essential step towards restoring banks to health and rebuilding trust in the banking system. The ECB is today...

The present study puts forward a plan for solving the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area (EA) in line with the interests of the working classes and the social majority. Our main strategy is for the European Central Bank (ECB) to acquire a significant part of the outstanding sovereign debt...

The present study puts forward a plan for solving the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area (EA) in line with the interests of the working classes and the social majority. Our main strategy is for the European Central Bank (ECB) to acquire a significant part of the outstanding sovereign debt...

The present study puts forward a plan for solving the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area (EA) in line with the interests of the working classes and the social majority. Our main strategy is for the European Central Bank (ECB) to acquire a significant part of the outstanding sovereign debt...

The search for a market design that ensures stable bank funding is at the top of regulators' policy agenda. This paper empirically shows that the central counterparty (CCP)-based euro interbank repo market features this stability. Using a unique and comprehensive data set, we show that the...

We provide a theoretical model for funding liquidity that extends the literature by allowing financial institutions to raise short-term unsecured funding in addition to secured funding. We identify a new liquidity spiral, a credit limit spiral, for unsecured funding and show how it reinforces...

This supplemental appendix extends the results in Mancini, Ranaldo, and Wrampelmeyer (2015) by presenting additional analyses and robustness checks. It also describes the procedure to construct proxies for the volume-weighted average haircuts applied by the ECB and Eurex Repo.The paper "The Euro...

When financial intermediaries’ key characteristic is provision of liquidity through their liabilities, with financial frictions the financial sector in the aggregate is likely to over-accumulate equity, thus decreasing liquidity provision and household welfare. Aggregate household welfare is...

Digital currencies provide a potential form of liquidity competing with bank deposits. We introduce stable digital currency into a macro model with a financial sector in which financial frictions generate endogenous systemic risk and instability. In the model, digital currency is fully...

Monetary policy can promote financial stability and improve household welfare. We con- sider a macro model with a financial sector in which banks do not actively issue equity, output and growth depend on the aggregate level of bank equity, and equilibrium is inefficient. Monetary policy rules...