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• 106 Monetary policy strategy in a global environment
  by Philippe Moutot & Giovanni Vitale [Downloadable!]
• 105 Flow-of-funds analysis at the ECB – framework and applications
  by Louis Bê Duc & Gwenaël Le Breton [Downloadable!]
• 104 Fiscal policy challenges in oil-exporting countries – a review of key issues
  by Michael Sturm & François Gurtner & Juan Gonzalez Alegre [Downloadable!]
• 103 Transnational governance in global finance - the principles for stable capital flows and fair debt restructuring in emerging markets
  by Raymond Ritter [Downloadable!]
• 102 Domestic Financial Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence and Implications
  by Ettore Dorrucci & Alexis Meyer-Cirkel & Daniel Santabárbara [Downloadable!]
• 101 Housing Finance in the Euro Area
  by 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 Mistrulli & Yannis Asimakopoulos & Vasilis Georgakopoulos & Maria Kasselaki & Jorge Martínez Pagés & Romain Weber & Christiana Argyridou & Wendy Zammit & Nuno Ribeiro & Daniel Gabrielli & Nicola Doyle & Harri Hasko & Vesna Lukovic [Downloadable!]
• 100 Survey data on household finance and consumption - research summary and policy use
  by The Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Network [Downloadable!]

• 99 The ECB and IMF indicators for the macro-prudential analysis of the banking sector: a comparison of the two approaches
  by Anna Maria Agresti & Patrizia Baudino & Paolo Poloni [Downloadable!]
• 98 Will oil prices decline over the long run?
  by Robert Kaufmann & Pavlos Karadeloglou & Filippo di Mauro [Downloadable!]
• 97 Globalisation and the competitiveness of the euro area
  by Filippo di Mauro & Katrin Forster [Downloadable!]
• 96 The monetary presentation of the euro area balance of payments
  by Louis Be Duc & Frank Mayerlen & Pierre Sola [Downloadable!]
• 95 Financial stability challenges in candidate countries - managing the transition to deeper and more market-oriented financial systems
  by Thierry Bracke & André Geis & Maurizio Habib & Csaba Móré & Éva Katalin Polgár & Adalbert Winkler & Emidio Cocozza & Peter Backé [Downloadable!]
• 94 The changing role of the exchange rate in a globalised economy
  by Filippo di Mauro & Rasmus Rueffer & Irina Bunda [Downloadable!]
• 93 Russia, EU enlargement and the euro
  by Zbigniew Polanski & Adalbert Winkler [Downloadable!]
• 92 The Gulf Cooperation Council countries – economic structures, recent developments and role in the global economy
  by Michael Sturm & Jan Strasky & Petra Adolf & Dominik Peschel [Downloadable!]
• 91 The impact of sovereign wealth funds on global financial markets
  by Roland Beck & Michael Fidora [Downloadable!]
• 90 Wage growth dispersion across the euro area countries - some stylised facts
  by Malin Andersson & Arne Gieseck & Beatrice Pierluigi & Nick Vidalis [Downloadable!]
• 89 An analysis of youth unemployment in the euro area
  by Ramon Gomez-Salvador & Nadine Leiner-Killinger [Downloadable!]
• 88 Real convergence, financial markets, and the current account – Emerging Europe versus emerging Asia
  by Sabine Herrmann & Adalbert Winkler [Downloadable!]
• 87 Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges
  by Klaus Masuch & Ramon Gómez-Salvador & Nadine Leiner-Killinger & Rolf Strauch & Jarkko Turunen & Melanie Ward-Warmedinger & Jan De Mulder & Harald Stahl & Yvonne McCarthy & Daphne Nicolitsas & Aitor Lacuesta & Mathilde Ravanel & Piero Cipollone & Christelle Olsommer & Alfred Stiglbauer & Álvaro Novo & Klara Stovicek & Heidi Schauman & Almut Balleer & Kieran McQuinn & Pasqualino Montanaro & Alfonso Rosolia & Eliana Viviano & Cláudia Filipa Duarte & Matija Vodopivec [Downloadable!]
• 86 Real convergence and the determinants of growth in EU candidate and potential candidate countries - a panel data approach
  by Magdalena Morgese Borys & Éva Katalin Polgár & Andrei Zlate [Downloadable!]
• 85 Benchmarking the Lisbon Strategy
  by Demosthenes Ioannou & Marien Ferdinandusse & Marco Lo Duca & Wouter Coussens [Downloadable!]
• 84 Short-term forecasting of GDP using large monthly datasets - a pseudo real-time forecast evaluation exercise
  by Karim Barhoumi & Szilard Benk & Riccardo Cristadoro & Ard Den Reijer & Audrone Jakaitiene & Piotr Jelonek & António Rua & Gerhard Rünstler & Karsten Ruth & Christophe Van Nieuwenhuyze [Downloadable!]
• 83 The predictability of monetary policy
  by Tobias Blattner & Marco Catenaro & Michael Ehrmann & Rolf Strauch & Jarkko Turunen [Downloadable!]
• 82 The sustainability of China's exchange rate policy and capital account liberalisation
  by Lorenzo Cappiello & Gianluigi Ferrucci [Downloadable!]
• 81 Measuring financial integration in new EU member states
  by Markus Baltzer & Lorenzo Cappiello & Roberto A. De Santis & Simone Manganelli [Downloadable!]
• 80 China's and India's roles in global trade and finance - twin titans for the new millennium?
  by Matthieu Bussière & Arnaud Mehl [Downloadable!]
• 79 The working of the eurosystem - monetary policy preparations and decision-making – selected issues
  by Philippe Moutot & Alexander Jung & Francesco Paolo Mongelli [Downloadable!]
• 78 A framework for assessing global imbalances
  by Thierry Bracke & Matthieu Bussière & Michael Fidora & Roland Straub [Downloadable!]

• 77 Oil market structure, network effects and the choice of currency for oil invoicing
  by Elitza Mileva & Nikolaus Siegfried [Downloadable!]
• 76 Prudential and oversight requirements for securities settlement
  by Daniela Russo & Giacomo Caviglia & Chryssa Papathanassiou & Simonetta Rosati [Downloadable!]
• 75 The role of other financial intermediaries in monetary and credit developments in the euro area
  by Philippe Moutot & Dieter Gerdesmeier & Adriana Lojschová & Julian von Landesberger [Downloadable!]
• 74 Analysis of revisions to general economic statistics
  by Mariagnese Branchi & Christian Dieden & Wim Haine & Csaba Horwáth & Andrew Kanutin & Linda Kezbere [Downloadable!]
• 73 Reserve accumulation - objective or by-product?
  by Johannes Onno de Beaufort Wijnholds & Lars Søndergaard [Downloadable!]
• 72 The role of financial markets and innovation in productivity and growth in Europe
  by Philipp Hartmann & Florian Heider & Elias Papaioannou & Marco Lo Duca [Downloadable!]
• 71 The economic impact of the Single Euro Payments Area
  by Heiko Schmiedel [Downloadable!]
• 70 The search for Columbus’ egg - finding a new formula to determine quotas at the IMF
  by Martin Skala & Christian Thimann & Regine Wölfinger [Downloadable!]
• 69 Fiscal policy in Mediterranean countries – developments, structures and implications for monetary policy
  by Michael Sturm & François Gurtner [Downloadable!]
• 68 The securities custody industry
  by Diana Chan & Florence Fontan & Simonetta Rosati & Daniela Russo [Downloadable!]
• 67 Towards harmonised balance of payments and international investment position statistics – the experience of the European compilers
  by Jean Marc Israël & Carlos Sánchez Muñoz [Downloadable!]
• 66 Structural reforms in EMU and the role of monetary policy – a survey of the literature
  by Nadine Leiner-Killinger & Víctor López Pérez & Roger Stiegert & Giovanni Vitale [Downloadable!]
• 65 The performance of credit rating systems in the assessment of collateral used in Eurosystem monetary policy operations
  by François Coppens & Fernando González & Gerhard Winkler [Downloadable!]
• 64 The use of portfolio credit risk models in Central Banks
  by Ulrich Bindseil & Han van der Hoorn & Ken Nyholm & Henrik Schwartzlose & Pierre Ledoyen & Wolfgang Föttinger & Fernando Monar & Bérénice Boux & Gigliola Chiappa & Noëlle Honings & Ricardo Amado & Kai Sotamaa & Dan Rosen [Downloadable!]
• 63 Corporate finance in the euro area – including background material
  by Francesco Drudi & Annalisa Ferrando & Petra Köhler-Ulbrich & David Marqués Ibañez & Philippine Cour-Thimann & Vanessa Baugnet & Elmar Stoess & Thomas Vlassopoulos & Carmen Martínez-Carrascal & Katia Tombois & Peter Mc.Goldrick & Carmelo Salleo & Romain Perrard & Maarten Hendrikx & Walter Waschiczek & Paula Antão & Anssi Rantala [Downloadable!]
• 62 Inflation-linked bonds from a Central Bank perspective
  by Juan Angel Garcia & Adrian van Rixtel [Downloadable!]
• 61 Determinants of growth in the central and eastern European EU member states - a production function approach
  by Olga Arratibel & Frigyes Ferdinand Heinz & Reiner Martin & Marcin Przybyla & Lucasz Rawdanowicz & Roberta Serafini & Tina Zumer [Downloadable!]
• 60 Commodity price fluctuations and their impact on monetary and fiscal policies in Western and Central Africa
  by Uwe Böwer & André Geis & Adalbert Winkler [Downloadable!]
• 59 The ECB survey of professional forecasters (SPF) – A review after eight years’ experience
  by Carlos Bowles & Roberta Friz & Veronique Genre & Geoff Kenny & Aidan Meyler & Tuomas Rautanen [Downloadable!]
• 58 Long-term growth prospects for the Russian economy
  by Roland Beck & Annette Kamps & Elitza Mileva [Downloadable!]
• 57 Understanding price developments and consumer price indices in south-eastern Europe
  by Sabine Herrmann & Eva Katalin Polgar [Downloadable!]
• 56 Assessing fiscal soundness - Theory and practice
  by Nicola Giammarioli & Christiane Nickel & Philipp Rother & Jean-Pierre Vidal [Downloadable!]
• 55 Globalisation and euro area trade: Interactions and challenges
  by Ursel Baumann & Filippo di Mauro [Downloadable!]

• 54 Quantitative quality indicators for statistics – an application to euro area balance of payment statistics
  by Violetta Damia & Carmen Picón Aguilar [Downloadable!]
• 53 Labour productivity developments in the euro area
  by Ramon Gomez-Salvador & Alberto Musso & Marc Stocker & Jarkko Turunen [Downloadable!]
• 52 Cross-border labour mobility within an enlarged EU
  by Frigyes Ferdinand Heinz & Melanie Ward-Warmedinger [Downloadable!]
• 51 Macroeconomic implications of demographic developments in the euro area
  by Angela Maddaloni & Alberto Musso & Philipp Rother & Melanie Ward-Warmedinger & Thomas Westermann [Downloadable!]
• 50 Implications for liquidity from innovation and transparency in the European corporate bond market
  by Marco Laganá & Martin Perina & Isabel von Köppen-Mertes & Avinash Persaud [Downloadable!]
• 49 Credit risk mitigation in central bank operations and its effects on financial markets - the case of the Eurosystem
  by Ulrich Bindseil & Francesco Papadia [Downloadable!]
• 48 Macroeconomic and financial stability challenges for acceding and candidate countries
  by Adalbert Winkler & Roland Beck [Downloadable!]
• 47 The reform and implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact
  by Richard Morris & Hedwig Ongena & Ludger Schuknecht [Downloadable!]
• 46 Inflation persistence and price-setting behaviour in the euro area – a summary of the IPN evidence
  by Filippo Altissimo & Michael Ehrmann & Frank Smets [Downloadable!]
• 45 Output growth differentials across the euro area countries - some stylised facts
  by Nicholai Benalal & Juan Luis Diaz del Hoyo & Beatrice Pierluigi & Nikiforos Vidalis [Downloadable!]
• 44 Competition, productivity and prices in the euro area services sector
  by Ad van Riet & Moreno Roma [Downloadable!]
• 43 The accumulation of foreign reserves
  by Georges Pineau & Ettore Dorrucci [Downloadable!]

• 42 The New Basel Capital Framework and its implementation in the European Union
  by Frank Dierick & Fatima Pires & Martin Scheicher & Kai Gereon Spitzer [Downloadable!]
• 41 What does European institutional integration tell us about trade integration?
  by Melanie Leiner-Killinger & Christophe Madaschi & Melanie Ward-Warmedinger [Downloadable!]
• 40 What does European institutional integration tell us about trade integration?
  by Francesco Paolo Mongelli & Ettore Dorrucci & Itai Agur [Downloadable!]
• 39 Labour productivity in the Nordic EU countries - a comparative overview and explanatory factors – 1998-2004
  by Anatoli Annenkov & Christophe Madaschi [Downloadable!]
• 38 Economic reactions to public finance consolidation - a survey of the literature
  by Maria Gabriella Briotti [Downloadable!]
• 37 Financing conditions in the euro area
  by Louis Bê Duc & Gabe de Bondt & Alessandro Calza & David Marqués Ibáñez & Adrian van Rixtel & Silvia Scopel [Downloadable!]
• 36 Economic and monetary integration of the new Member States - helping to chart the route
  by Ignazio Angeloni & Michael Flad & Francesco Paolo Mongelli [Downloadable!]
• 35 The institutional framework for financial market policy in the USA seen from an EU perspective
  by Reinhard Petschnigg [Downloadable!]
• 34 Hedge funds and their implications for financial stability
  by Tomas Garbaravicius & Frank Dierick [Downloadable!]
• 33 Integration of securities market infrastructures in the euro area
  by Heiko Schmiedel & Andreas Schönenberger [Downloadable!]
• 32 Managing financial crises in emerging market economies - experience with the involvement of private sector creditors
  by Christian Thimann & Regine Wölfinger & Thierry Bracke & Rita Bessone Basto & Ole Hollensen & Stephan von Stenglin & Santiago Fernández de Lis & Pierre-François Weber & Marco Committeri & Rolf Pauli & Christian Just & Minna Nikitin & John Drage [Downloadable!]
• 31 Regional monetary integration in the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council
  by Michael Sturm & Nikolaus Siegfried [Downloadable!]
• 30 Competitiveness and the export performance of the euro area
  by Filippo di Mauro & Robert Anderton & Ekkehard Ernst & Laurent Maurin & Sonia Pokutova & Wim Melyn & Axel Jochem & N. M. Pakinezou & Javier Torres & Remy Lecat & Mark Cassidy & Roberto Tedeschi & Erik Walch & Jurriann Eggelte & Karin Wagner & Ildeberta Abreu & Helvi Kinnunen & Tobias Blattner & Roberto De Santis & Rodrigo Oliveira-Soires & Jian-Guang Shen & Matthias Sydow & Thomas Warmedinger & Tina Zumer & Iris Nelissen & Emanuelle Breda [Downloadable!]
• 29 Wealth and asset price effects on economic activity
  by Filippo Altissimo & Evaggelia Georgiou & Teresa Sastre & Maria Teresa Valderrama & Gabriel Sterne & Marc Stocker & Mark Weth & Karl Whelan & Alpo Willman [Downloadable!]
• 28 Regulatory reforms in selected EU network industries
  by Reiner Martin & Moreno Roma & Isabel Vansteenkiste [Downloadable!]
• 27 The EU budget – how much scope for institutional reform?
  by Henrik Enderlein & Johannes Lindner & Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez & Raymond Ritter [Downloadable!]
• 26 Analysing banking sector conditions - how to use macro-prudential indicators
  by Leena Mörttinen & Paolo Poloni & Patrick Sandars & Jukka Vesala [Downloadable!]
• 25 Government debt management in the euro area - recent theoretical developments and changes in practices
  by Guido Wolswijk & Jakob de Haan [Downloadable!]
• 24 Wage diversity in the euro area - an overview of labour cost differentials across industries
  by Véronique Genre & Daphne Momferatou & Gilles Mourre [Downloadable!]
• 23 The bank lending survey for the euro area
  by Jesper Berg & Annalisa Ferrando & Gabe de Bondt & Silvia Scopel [Downloadable!]
• 22 Assessing potential output growth in the euro area - a growth accounting perspective
  by Alberto Musso & Thomas Westermann [Downloadable!]

• 21 Governance of securities clearing and settlement systems
  by Daniela Russo & Terry L. Hart & M. C. Malaguti & Chryssa Papathanassiou [Downloadable!]
• 20 The supervision of mixed financial services groups in Europe
  by Frank Dierick [Downloadable!]
• 19 Sectoral specialisation in the EU a macroeconomic perspective
  by Ad van Riet & Ekkehard Ernst & Christophe Madaschi & Fabrice Orlandi & Alvaro Santos Rivera & Benoît Robert & Jörg Döpke & Constantina Backinezos & Ioanna Bardakas & Esther Gordo Mora & Christian Barontini & Mark Cassidy & Sandro Trento & Erik Walch & Bouke Buitenkamp & Karin Wagner & Hugo Reis & Risto Herrala & Faisel Sethi & Kurt Gustavsson & Vincent Labhard [Downloadable!]
• 18 The international role of the euro - evidence from bonds issued by non-euro area residents
  by André Geis & Arnaud Mehl & Stefan Wredenborg [Downloadable!]
• 17 Corporate ‘excesses’ and financial market dynamics
  by Angela Maddaloni & Darren Pain [Downloadable!]
• 16 Market dynamics associated with credit ratings - a literature review
  by Fernando Gonzalez & François Haas & Ronald Johannes & Mattias Persson & Liliana Toledo & Roberto Violi & Martin Wieland & Carmen Zins [Downloadable!]
• 15 Quality adjustment of European price statistics and the role for hedonics
  by Henning Ahnert & Geoff Kenny [Downloadable!]
• 14 Measuring financial integration in the euro area
  by Lieven Baele & Annalisa Ferrando & Peter Hördahl & Elizaveta Krylova & Cyril Monnet [Downloadable!]
• 13 Fair value accounting and financial stability
  by Andrea Enria & Lorenzo Cappiello & Frank Dierick & Sergio Grittini & Andrew Haralambous & Angela Maddaloni & Philippe Molitor & Fatima Pires & Paolo Poloni [Downloadable!]
• 12 Understanding the impact of the external dimension on the euro area - trade, capital flows and other international macroeconomic linkages
  by Robert Anderton & Filippo di Mauro & Fabio Moneta [Downloadable!]
• 11 Official dollarisation/euroisation - motives, features and policy implications of current cases
  by Adalbert Winkler & Francesco Mazzaferro & Carolin Nerlich & Christian Thimann [Downloadable!]
• 10 The acceding countries’ strategies towards ERM II and the adoption of the euro - an analytical review
  by Peter Backé & Christian Thimann & Olga Arratibel & Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez & Arnaud Mehl & Carolin Nerlich [Downloadable!]
• 09 Fiscal adjustment between 1991 and 2002 - stylised facts and policy implications
  by Maria Gabriella Briotti [Downloadable!]

• 08 An introduction to the ECB’s survey of professional forecasters
  by Juan Angel Garcia [Downloadable!]

• 07 Economic relations with regions neighbouring the euro area in the ‘euro time zone
  by Francesco Mazzaferro & Arnaud Mehl & Michael Sturm & Christian Thimann & Adalbert Winkler [Downloadable!]
• 06 Banking integration in the euro area
  by Inês Cabral & Frank Dierick & Jukka Vesala [Downloadable!]
• 05 The evolution of clearing and central counterparty services for exchange-traded derivatives in the United States and Europe - a comparison
  by Daniela Russo & Terry L. Hart & Andreas Schönenberger [Downloadable!]
• 04 Labour force developments in the euro area since the 1980s
  by Veronique Genre & Ramon Gomez Salvador [Downloadable!]
• 03 Estimating the trend of M3 income velocity underlying the reference value for monetary growth
  by Claus Brand & Dieter Gerdesmeier & Barbara Roffia [Downloadable!]
• 02 The effective exchange rates of the euro
  by Luca Buldorini & Stelios Makrydakis & Christian Thimann [Downloadable!]

• 1 The impact of the euro on money and bond markets
  by Javier Santillán & Marc Bayle & Christian Thygesen [Downloadable!]

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