The Landscape Working Group of the EOSC Executive Board surveyed and documented the landscape of infrastructures, initiatives, and policies across Europe relating to the development of the EOSC system. While the Landscape Report summarised the existing policies and investments based on inputs pr...
New provisioning rules introduced by IFRS 9 are expected to reduce the procyclicality of provisioning. Heterogeneity among banks in the procyclicality of provisioning may not only reflect the formal accounting rules, but also variation in discretionary provisioning policies. This paper presents ...
Based on satellite imagery, an analysis of the state of the infrastructure on each route in the shortlist of missing railway links with sufficient passenger demand potential can be carried out. The historic route largely determines the preferred alignment of a route. Where the historic ...
Using an event-study approach, this paper provides an impact analysis of seven sets of balance sheet policies (BSPs) launched by the ECB between October 2008 and January 2015. According to the event-study results, the set of ECB BSPs announced in 2014 had the broadest immediate...
Current initiatives to regulate bank’s trading activities are aimed at sealing off the banking system from the instability of financial markets, revealed during the recent financial crisis. The main findings of bank balance sheet analysis for 5 000 European Union banks for 2000...
Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance...
This publication presents an overview of GFS data for each Member State, the European Union, the euro area as well as the United Kingdom, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland in an integrated manner. The data include: government revenue, expenditure, deficit, transactions in assets and liabilities, o...
