American households have received a triple dose of bad news since the beginning of the current recession: The greatest collapse in asset values since the Great Depression, a sharp tightening in credit availability, and a large increase in unemployment risk. We present measures of the size of...

We extend household-level data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey using aggregate series and micro-simulations to investigate heterogeneity in the euro area. We quantify shocks to wealth, income and financial pressure faced by various categories of households since the onset of...

We extend household-level data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey using aggregate series and micro-simulations to investigate heterogeneity in the euro area. We quantify shocks to wealth, income and financial pressure faced by various categories of households since the onset of...

This European Central Bank (ECB) publication - Stress Test Analytics for Macroprudential Purposes in the euro area (STAMP€) - offers a suite of analytical tools for those interested in stress-testing frameworks and has been developed by ECB staff over the past few years.

The TITUS exercise, held on 4 November 2015, was a crisis communication exercise involving the Eurosystem's payment system oversight function, TARGET2 operators and all critical payment infrastructures processing the euro, including some of their major participants. The participants were...

I study economies where banks do not fully internalize the social costs of default, which distorts their lending decisions. In all these economies, a common general equilibrium effect leads to aggregate over-investment. As a result, under laissez-faire, crises are too frequent and too costly...