Belgium
Belgium modernises central bank statute
National Bank of Belgium calls extraordinary general meeting to discuss changes to statute governing central bank; attempts to avoid repeat of historic legal battle debacle over ancient wording
Belgium’s Quaden quits
National Bank of Belgium governor Guy Quaden to leave in March; continued lack of unity in government raises concerns over central bank’s leadership
Belgium’s Praet to be nominated to ECB executive board
Eurozone finance ministers recommend National Bank of Belgium executive director Peter Praet to European Central Bank executive board
New highs for CDS spreads on Ireland and Belgium
The cost of insuring against Irish and Belgian state defaults reaches unprecedented levels
ECB paper develops new labour market model
European Central Bank study estimates new monitoring and forecasting model to measure labour market adjustments in Europe
Norges Bank: universal banking enhances development of corporate debt markets
Norges Bank study shows that universal banking model promotes successful securitisation of corporate debt markets
Greek debt crisis sparks widening of almost all global CDS spreads
Cost of protecting against a Greek default up 190% in three months to mid-June as CDS spreads widened for 93% of sovereign debt on back of sovereign debt crisis in Europe
National Bank of Belgium - Financial Stability Review (2010)
National Bank of Belgium's financial stability review outlines shortcomings of government law passed on banking recovery measures
Carlos Costa replaces Constâncio at head of Bank of Portugal
Former EIB vice president Carlos Costa is sworn in as governor after Vitor Constâncio takes ECB deputy spot
Interview: Peter Praet
Fortis’s collapse all too well illustrated the difficulties in saving cross-border European banks. But the ideal solution, a European crisis resolution authority, remains a distant dream. However, there is an existing, yet perhaps unusual, candidate from…
NBB: Macroeconomics not to blame for financial turmoil
Belgian central bank paper looks at the consequences the financial crisis on macroeconomics with a study of Keynes and Lucas.
A fifth of prices change each month in Belgium
National Bank of Belgium examines how frequently prices change in Belgium
Lamfalussy: the college years
The National Bank of Belgium has published a working paper analysing the work of the young Alexandre Lamfalussy.
ECB's policy rule does not fit all
Euro policy rates best fit the largest eurozone members, research from the Bank of Finland posits.
Sacking preferable to lower pay for firms
Firms prefer to sack workers rather than cut their pay, a new paper from the National Bank of Belgium reveals.
National Bank of Belgium - Annual Report 2007
The changing environment in which the National Bank of Belgium is evolving has greatly altered its personnel needs, says the central bank in its latest Annual Report.
Euro not the key to stability: CNB's Tomsik
Adopting the euro will do little to enhance macroeconomic stability, said Vladimir Tomsik, a member of the Czech National Bank's rate-setting board.
Markets obey laws of nature not math: NBB's Praet
The "once in a century" credit crisis demands a fundamental re-think in the way we view, and regulate, financial systems, Peter Praet, an executive director at the National Bank of Belgium and a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, has…
European authorities rescue Dexia
The Belgian and Luxembourg authorities on Tuesday presided over their second bank bailout in as many days, rescuing Dexia, the world's largest lender to local government, along with their French counterpart.
Benelux authorities part nationalise Fortis
The governments of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands have bought sizeable stakes in Fortis, Belgium's biggest lender, after capital fears triggered a cull in shares.
Market pressure matters for capital
Market pressure was an important factor in the banks' capital build-up during the early 1990s, according to a new paper by the National Bank of Belgium.
National Bank of Belgium revamps website
The National Bank of Belgium re-launched its website on Monday in a bid to enhance access to its services and better publicise its work.
Where New-Keynesian models fall short
New-Keynesian monetary models' assumptions do not fully reflect the complexity of price behaviour, a paper published by the National Bank of Belgium states.
Exporters create more jobs
Firms participating in international markets have higher employment growth rates than purely domestic companies, research published by the National Bank of Belgium finds.