The first paper is co-authored with Sylvain Delalay. We examine the impact of competition between ETFs on measures of market quality of the funds. The surge in new ETF creation has for consequence that groups of competing ETFs are increasingly crowded, and investors can choose from a multitude...

In May 2016 the Governing Council adopted the AnaCredit Regulation (ECB/2016/13) providing the legal basis for the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) to collect granular information on loans from banks to corporates and other legal persons based on a core set of harmonised concepts and...

In the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, a number of European OECD countries introduced credit mediation schemes, as a new, often temporary mechanism to help ease access to finance by SMEs. This report investigates the nature of credit mediation and credit review schemes implemented in...