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House prices have increased very strongly in the first COVID year and this increase was not driven by changes in the quality of the property sold. Turning to the longer term, the energy quality of ...

One of the National Bank’s core tasks is to ensure that the Belgian financial system can weather challenges without putting in jeopardy its main economic functions. You can read about how stable the ...

Critical nodes in the functioning of financial markets and payment services FMIs, custodians, payment service providers and critical service providers subject to oversight and prudential supervision ...

Since 2019, the articles from the Economic Review are published in French and Dutch in the form of digests, their full version being available only in English.

Abstract The main purpose of this Working Paper is providing an overview of the economic importance of the Flemish maritime ports, the Liège port complex and the port of Brussels over the period ...

In its capacity as Macroprudential Authority, the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) Board has undertaken its annual review of the designations of domestic systemically important banks The NBB has also ...

International institutions consider risks to the sustainability of Belgian public finances as “high”. But what is the debt outlook for the federal government, the regions and the communities within ...

Nevertheless, central bank losses have stoked public debate as they have consequences for state budgets and, thus, taxpayers. Indeed, over recent decades, major central banks have tended to distribute ...

De manière générale, la baisse est plus prononcée dans l’industrie manufacturière que dans les services. Les situations individuelles peuvent cependant être très différentes, car l’ampleur de la ...

In het Financial Market Infrastructures and Payment Services Report geeft de NBB een helder overzicht van haar toezicht op belangrijke spelers in het Belgische financiële landschap. Het gaat onder ...