What is the European Capital Markets Institute?

The European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) is an autonomous research institute that performs research and studies on European capital markets and related issues. The ECMI was established in 1993. It is overseen by the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS).

What does the European Capital Markets Institute Do?

The European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) states its central goal advising on European capital markets. Pursuant to this objective, it conducts autonomous research and educates people and policymakers on important issues relevant to EU capital markets. Its primary research areas are:

• money supply issues,
• capital markets effectiveness,
• exchanging and post-exchanging market frameworks,
• corporate financing,
• retail and institutional ventures,
• resource administration, and
• monetary innovation (fintech).

ECMI creates working papers, research reports, and books. Moreover, it updates factual databases on European and worldwide capital markets. It intends to encourage communication among market members, policymakers and scholars. 

Towards this objective, it frequently conducts workshops and courses focusing on issues facing European capital markets. It holds its annual conference each year in in Brussels, Belgium, uniting more than 30 state speakers and in excess of 300 members. 

ECMI membership is extended to privately owned businesses/associations, scholars, financial institutions, credit rating agencies, banks, member of stock exchanges, ISDA and the ECB. It has more than 50 members which include members from central banks, academic and research institutes, financial firms, commerce industry, regulatory bodies, commercial banks and more.

Related Topics

• Legal Tender
• Numismatics
• Gresham's Law
• Barter
• Double Coincidence of Wants
• Parity
• Functions of Money
• Medium of Exchange
• Unit of Account
• Store of Value
• Time Value of Money
• Standard of Deferred Payment
• Liquidity Preference Theory
• National Savings and Investment Identity
• Circular Flow of Money
• Commodity Money
• Gold Exchange Standard
• Bretton Woods System
• Fiat Money
• Money Supply
• M1 and M2 Money Supply
• Monetary Base
• Savings, Demand, and Time Deposits
• Banks
• How Do Banks Create Money? 
• Financial Intermediary
• Bank Balance Sheet
• Money Multiplier Formula
• Velocity of Money
• Multiplier Effect
• Quantity Equation of Money
• McCallum Rule
• Neutrality of Money
• Real Bills Theory
• Banking System?
• Central Bank
• Federal Reserve System
• Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
• Fed Balance Sheet
• Term Auction Facility
• Taylor Rule
• How is the Federal Reserve Bank Organized?
• What is Bank Regulation?
• CAMELS Rating
• FDIC
• CFPB
• Bank Supervision
• Bank Runs
• What is Deposit Insurance?
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Lender of Last Resort
• Central Banks Carry Out Monetary Policy
• Open Market Operations
• Bank Reserve
• Discount Rate
• Federal Funds Rate
• Monetary Policy
• Contractionary and Expansionary Monetary Policy
• Loose vs Tight Monetary Policy
• Easy Monetary Policy 
• Accommodative Monetary Policy
• Dove & Hawk (Monetary Policy) - Explained
• Tight Monetary Policy - Explained
• Stabilization Policy
• Pushing on a String
• The Effect of Monetary Policy on Interest Rates
• Federal Funds Rate
• Gibson Paradox
• Vasicek Interest Rate Model
• Equation of Exchange (Economics)
• The Effect of Monetary Policy on Aggregate Demand
• Quantitative Easing
• Reserve Currency
• What are Excess Reserves?
• Unpredictable Movements of Velocity
• Central Banks - Unemployment and Inflation
• Inflation Targeting
• Fisher Effect
• Asset Bubbles and Leverage Cycles
• Countercyclical
• Money Capital Market
• Quantity Theory of Money
• Aggregate Expenditure Model
• IS-LM Model
• European Capital Market Institute