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144: The mutating euro area crisis: is the balance between "sceptics" and "advocates" shifting?

Francesco Paolo Mongelli

143: Financial shocks and the macroeconomy: heterogeneity and non-linearities

Kirstin Hubrich, D’Agostino, Antonello, Marianna Cervena, Matteo Ciccarelli, Paolo Guarda, Markus Haavio, Philippe Jeanfils, Caterina Mendicino, Patry Tello, Maria Teresa Valderrama and Marianna Valentinyiné Endrész

142: China's economic growth and rebalancing

Ettore Dorrucci, Gabor Pula and Daniel Santabárbara

141: External competitiveness of EU candidate countries

Lucia Orszaghova, Li Savelin and Willem Schudel

140: Financial stability analysis: insights gained from consolidated banking data for the EU

Stefano Borgioli, Ana Cláudia Gouveia and Claudio Labanca

139: Competitiveness and external imbalances within the euro area

Alistair Dieppe, Stephane Dees, Pascal Jacquinot, Tohmas Karlsson, Chiara Osbat, Selin Özyurt, Igor Vetlov, Axel JOCHEM, Zacharias Bragoudakis, Dimitrios Sideris, Patry Tello, Jean Charles Bricongne, Guillaume Gaulier, Massimiliano Pisani, Niki Papadopoulou, Brian Micallef, Viktors Ajevskis, Michal Brzoza-Brzezina, Sandra Gomes, Judit Krekó and Milan Vyskrabka

138: Euro area labour markets and the crisis

Robert Anderton, Mario Izquierdo, Ted Aranki, Boele Bonthuis, Katarzyna Budnik, Ramón Gómez-Salvador, Valerie Jarvis, Ana Lamo, Aidan Meyler, Daphne Momferatou, Roberta Serafini, Magdalena Spooner, Martine Druant, Jan De Mulder, Katja Sonderhof, Daniel Radowski, Orsolya Soosaar, Natalja Viilmann, Suzanne Linehan, Daphne Nicolitsas, Sergio Puente, Cristina Fernández, Gregory Verdugo, Matteo Mogliani, Henri Fraisse, Roberta Zizza, Mariya Ktoris, Cindy Veiga Nunes, Muriel Bouchet, Sandra Zerafa, Ian Sapiano, Marco Hoeberichts, Jante Parlevliet, Alfred Stiglbauer, Paul Ramskogler, José R. Maria, Cláudia Filipa Duarte, Manca Jesenko, Helena Solcanska, Pavel Gertler, Juuso Vanhala and Heidi Schauman

137: Euro area labour markets and the crisis

Heiko Schmiedel, Gergana Kostova and Wiebe Ruttenberg

135: The use of the Eurosystem's monetary policy instruments and operational framework since 2009

Fabian Eser, Marta Carmona Amaro, Stefano Iacobelli and Marc Rubens

134: Revisiting the effective exchange rates of the Euro

Martin Schmitz, Maarten De Clercq, Michael Fidora, Bernadette Lauro and Cristina Pinheiro

133: Shadow banking in the Euro area: an overview

Klára Bakk-Simon, Stefano Borgioli, Celestino Giron, Hannah Sabine Hempell, Angela Maddaloni, Fabio Recine and Simonetta Rosati

132: The size and composition of government debt in the euro area

Dagmar Hartwig Lojsch, Marta Rodríguez-Vives and Michal Slavík

131: Interchange fees in card payments

Ann Börestam and Heiko Schmiedel

130: Some lessons from the financial crisis for the economic analysis

Geoff Kenny and Julian Morgan

129: The Stability and Growth Pact: crisis and reform

Ludger Schuknecht, Philippe Moutot, Philipp Rother and Jürgen Stark

128: Structural features of distributive trades and their impact on prices in the euro area

Robert Anderton, Aidan Meyler, Luca Gattini, Mario Izquierdo, Valerie Jarvis, Ri Kaarup, Magdalena Komzakova, Bettina Landau, Matthias Mohr, Adrian Page, David Sondermann, Philip Vermeulen, David Cornille, Tsvetan Tsalinski, Zornitsa Vladova, Christin Hartmann, Harald Edgar Stahl, Suzanne Linehan, Hiona Balfoussia, Stylianos Panagiotou, María de los Llanos Matea, Luis J. Alvarez, Pierre-Michel Bardet-Fremann, Nicoletta Berardi, Patrick SEVESTRE, Emanuela Ciapanna, Concetta Rondinelli, Demetris Kapatais, Eric Walch, Patrick Lünnemann, Sandra Zerafa Zerafa, Christopher Pace, Jasper Kieft, Friedrich Fritzer, Fátima Cardoso, Mateja Gabrijelcic, Branislav Karma and Jarkko Kivistö

127: Beyond the economics of the euro: analysing the institutional evolution of EMU 1999-2010

Marion Salines, Gabriel Glöckler, Zbigniew Truchlewski and Paola del Favero

126: Euro area cross-border financial flows and the global financial crisis

Katrin Forster, Melina Vasardani and Ca’ Zorzi, Michele

125: Household sector borrowing in the euro area - a micro data perspective

Ramon Gomez-Salvador, Adriana Lojschova and Thomas Westermann

124: Who has been affected, how and why? The spillover of the global financial crisis to Sub-Saharan Africa and ways to recovery

Sophie Chauvin and André Geis

123: The international monetary system after the financial crisis

Ettore Dorrucci and Julie McKay

122: The impact of the Eurosystem's covered bond purchase programme on the primary and secondary markets

John Beirne, Lars Dalitz, Jacob Ejsing, Magdalena Grothe, Simone Manganelli, Fernando Monar, Benjamin Sahel, Matjaž Sušec, Jens Tapking and Tana Vong

121: The benefits of fiscal consolidation in uncharted waters

Philipp Rother, Ludger Schuknecht and Jürgen Stark

120: Dancing together at arm’s length? – The interaction of central banks with governments in the G7

Cristina Bodea and Stefan Huemer

119: The global downturn and its impact on euro area exports and competitiveness

Filippo di Mauro, Katrin Forster and Ana Lima

118: The impact of the global financial turmoil and recession on Mediterranean countries’ economies

Michael Sturm and Nicolas Sauter

117: Extraordinary measures in extraordinary times – Public measures in support of the financial sector in the EU and the United States

Stéphanie Marie Stolz and Michael Wedow

116: Securities clearing and settlement in China - markets, infrastructures and policy-making

Patrick Hess

115: Financial stability challenges in EU candidate countries - Financial systems in the aftermath of the global crisis

Thierry Bracke, Éva Katalin Polgár, Kristel Buysse, Desislava Rusinova, Alexandre Francart, Jakob Ekholdt Christensen, Corinna Knobloch, Nikolaos Stavrianou, Pavel Diev, Emidio Cocozza, Jon Frost, Sándor Gardó and David Farelius

114: The impact of the global economic and financial crisis on central, eastern and south-eastern Europe - A stock-taking exercise

Fédéric Holm-Hadulla, Sándor Gardó and Reiner Martin

113: Energy markets and the euro area macroeconomy

Rolf Strauch, Aidan Meyler, Roland Beck, Agostino Consolo, Riccardo Costantini, Michael Fidora, Luca Gattini, Bettina Landau, Ana Lima, David Lodge, Marco Jacopo Lombardi, Ricardo Mestre, Matthias Mohr, Moreno Roma, Frauke Skudelny, Michal Slavík, Michel Soudan, Martin Spitzer, Melina Vasardani, Vanessa Baugnet, David Cornille, Christin Hartmann, Ulf Slopek, O’Brien, Derry, Laura Weymes, Zacharias Bragoudakis, Pinelopi Zioutou, Ángel Estrada, María de los Llanos Matea, Noelia Jiménez, Anton A. Nakov, Galo Nuño Barrau, Erwan Gautier, Delphine Irac, Nicolas Maggiar, Ivan Faiella, Fabrizio Venditti, Lena Cleanthous, Muriel Bouchet, Amela Hubic, Brian Micallef, Guido Schotten, Andreas Breitenfellner, João Amador, Monika Tepina, Mikulas Car and Milan Donoval

112: Public wages in the euro area - towards securing stability and competitiveness

Fédéric Holm-Hadulla, Kishore Kamath, Ana Lamo, Javier J. Pérez García and Ludger Schuknecht

111: Main drivers of the ECB financial accounts and ECB financial strength over the first 11 years

Olivier Vergote, Werner Studener, Ioannis Efthymiadis and Niall Merriman

110: Protectionist responses to the crisis - global trends and implications

Matthieu Bussiere, Emilia Pérez-Barreiro, Roland Straub and Daria Taglioni

109: Euro area fiscal policies and the crisis

Ad van Riet

108: Trade consistency in the context of the Eurosystem projection exercises - an overview

Kirstin Hubrich and Tohmas Karlsson

107: The collateral frameworks of the Eurosystem, the Federal Reserve System and the Bank of England and the financial market turmoil

Samuel Cheun, Isabel von Köppen-Mertes and Benedict Weller

106: Monetary policy strategy in a global environment

Philippe Moutot and Giovanni Vitale

105: Flow-of-funds analysis at the ECB – framework and applications

Louis Bê Duc and Gwenaël Le Breton

104: Fiscal policy challenges in oil-exporting countries – a review of key issues

Michael Sturm, François Gurtner and Juan Gonzalez Alegre

103: Transnational governance in global finance - the principles for stable capital flows and fair debt restructuring in emerging markets

Raymond Ritter

102: Domestic Financial Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence and Implications

Ettore Dorrucci, Alexis Meyer-Cirkel and Daniel Santabárbara

101: Housing Finance in the Euro Area

Francesco Drudi, Petra Köhler-Ulbrich, Marco Protopapa, Jiri Slacalek, Christoffer Kok Sørensen, Guido Wolswijk, Ramón Gómez Salvador, Ruth Magono, Nico Valckx, Elmar Stöss, Karin Wagner, Zoltan Walko, Marie Denise Zachary, Silvia Magri, Laura Bartiloro, Paolo Emilio Mistrulli, Ioannis Asimakopoulos, Vasilis Georgakopoulos, Maria Kasselaki, Jorge Martínez Pagés, Romain Weber, Christiana Argyridou, Wendy Zammit, Nuno Ribeiro, Daniel Gabrielli, Nicola Doyle, Harri Hasko and Vesna Lukovic

100: Survey data on household finance and consumption - research summary and policy use

The Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Network

99: The ECB and IMF indicators for the macro-prudential analysis of the banking sector: a comparison of the two approaches

Anna Maria Agresti, Patrizia Baudino and Paolo Poloni

98: Will oil prices decline over the long run?

Robert K. Kaufmann, Pavlos Karadeloglou and Filippo di Mauro

97: Globalisation and the competitiveness of the euro area

Filippo di Mauro and Katrin Forster

96: The monetary presentation of the euro area balance of payments

Louis Be Duc, Frank Mayerlen and Pierre Sola

95: Financial stability challenges in candidate countries - managing the transition to deeper and more market-oriented financial systems

Thierry Bracke, André Geis, Maurizio Habib, Csaba Móré, Éva Katalin Polgár, Adalbert Winkler, Emidio Cocozza and Peter Backé

94: The changing role of the exchange rate in a globalised economy

Filippo di Mauro, Rasmus Rueffer and Irina Bunda