EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The High-level Expert Group was requested to consider in depth
whether there is a need for structural reforms of the EU banking sector or not and to make …

Cash is being used less and less for making payments in many countries, including Canada
and Sweden, which might suggest that cash will eventually disappear. However, cash in …

The causes and consequences of the financial crises in the Nordic countries in the early
1990s are examined and lessons from this episode are extracted. The focus is on the boom …

This fascinating volume offers a comprehensive synthesis of the events, causes and
outcomes of the major financial crises from 1929 to the present day. Beginning with an …

Between 1933 and 1936 the Home Owners' Loan Corporation purchased more than a
million delinquent mortgages from private lenders and refinanced those loans for the …

When a bank is deemed'too big to fail'by regulators, it may be tempted to buy risky assets.
This paper analyses bank bailouts involving the purchases of toxic assets, preferred stock …

This paper gives an account of the Swedish financial crisis covering the period 1985-2000,
dealing with financial deregulation and the boom in the late 1980s, the bust and the financial …

The ADAM project is funded by the European Commission to research strategies for
mitigating and adapting to climate change from a European perspective but in a global …

This paper describes the main details of the Swedish economic model, which began to be
structured on the 1930s and achieved its consolidation on the 1950s. The Swedish model is …

From the mid-1990s to 2007, the vast majority of OECD countries experienced an
exceptional expansion of their housing markets, both in terms of magnitude and duration …