Financial literacy

Unequal wealth: Policy implications for the European Union

Zsolt Darvas

How has Europe’s gender wealth gap evolved, and why?

Zsolt Darvas

Gender wealth inequality in the European Union: a distributional perspective

Analysis of single women and men in Europe reveals persistent gender wealth gaps and differing patterns across countries

Zsolt Darvas and Nina Ruer

European export finance needs a reboot

Different options of what a European architecture for ECAs could look like, and how they could be leveraged to serve European public goods

Conor McCaffrey and Niclas Poitiers

Financial education and spillover effects

Theodosis Kallenos, Andreas Milidonis, George Nishiotis and Stavros Zenios

How Europe can save for success

The EU’s new top finance official, Maria Luis Albuquerque, should lead member states and their citizens towards better retail savings

Rebecca Christie

The state of financial knowledge in the European Union: a new survey

Maria Demertzis, Juan Mejino-López and Luca Léry Moffat

Memo to the commissioner responsible for economic and financial affairs

Zsolt Darvas, Maria Demertzis and Stavros Zenios

The state of financial knowledge in the European Union

Financial literacy is essential in modern economies, where saving and preparing for retirement has shifted increasingly to the individual.

Maria Demertzis, Luca Léry Moffat, Annamaria Lusardi and Juan Mejino-López

Holdings limit will prove central to the digital euro’s future

The European Central Bank says its digital currency will not be a store of value, in contrast to global counterparts.

Rebecca Christie

Are We Heading for Another Debt Crisis in Low-Income Countries? Debt Vulnerabilities: Today vs the pre-HIPC Era

There are concerns that 25 years after the launch of the HIPC debt relief initiative, many low-income countries are facing high debt vulnerabilities.

Guillaume Chabert, Chuku Chuku, Martin D. Cerisola, Marcos Chamon, Dalia Hakura, Prateek Samal, Joyce Saito and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Taking up space

Being a woman in the financial sector can still be challenging, but change is (slowly) coming.

Rebecca Christie

Doing ‘whatever it takes’ to save the banks

Maria Demertzis

Fast and furious: how digital bank runs challenge the banking-crisis rulebook

The speed of recent bank failures has shown the need for more systemic protection of the financial system.

Silvia Merler

The ripple effect of financial education

A financial literacy course for university students in Cyprus also improved the financial knowledge of their parents.

Theodosis Kallenos, Andreas Milidonis and Stavros Zenios