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Tropical Leaves

Publications

In addition to academic research, I contribute to EU public policy debates with reports, blog posts and media articles.

Journal Articles

  1. A. SmoleÅ„ska, „Zrównoważone banki? Czynniki ESG w unijnych regulacjach mikroostrożnoÅ›ciowych”, Studia BAS Nr 2(74)2023

  2. A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Euro as the currency of the EU’s green transition”, European Law Open. 2022;1(4)

  3. A. SmoleÅ„ska, “A European Credit Council for Consistent and Informed Policymaking”, Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium (2023)

  4. M. Grochowski and A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Law and Political Economy: a methodological introduction from a CEE perspective” Studia Prawa Prywatnego (2023)

  5. A. SmoleÅ„ska and J. van ‘t Klooster, “A Risky Bet: Climate Change and the EU’s Microprudential Framework for Banks” Journal of Financial Regulation (2022)

  6. A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Multilevel cooperation in the EU resolution of cross-border bank groups: lessons from the non-euro area Member States joining the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM)”, Journal of Banking Regulation (2021)

  7. A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Nowe życie Unii”, Polski PrzeglÄ…d Dyplomatyczny (2019)

Books

  1. D. Ramos Munoz and A. Smoleńska, Green Bonds: a European Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Book chapters

1.     A. SmoleÅ„ska, Central bank supervisory role: micro-prudential supervision and regulation”, Central Banking and Sustainability, eds S Gruenwald and K Alexander, Cambridge University Press, 2025 (forthcoming)

2.     W. Lewandowski, A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Member States Sovereign Green Bond Issuance and the Development of Local Green Bond Markets in the EU” in: D. Ramos Munoz and A. SmoleÅ„ska, Green Bonds: a European Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

3.     A. SmoleÅ„ska, “EU’s green financial support to the transition to biofuel and biogases”, Law for EU’s Circular Energy System, eds L de Almeida and J van Zeben, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023

4.     A. SmoleÅ„ska and T. Beukers, ‘‘Central Banks and Financial Stability in Comparative Perspective’, The ‘New’ European Central Bank: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead at 20, eds T Beukers, G Monti and D Fromage, Oxford University Press, 2022

5.     A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Plany przejÅ›cia, czyli jak banki bÄ™dÄ… dążyć do osiÄ…gniÄ™cia neutralnoÅ›ci klimatycznej”, Zielone Finanse, ed L Kotecki, 2022

6.     A. SmoleÅ„ska and P. Tokarski, “The Greening of the ECB Monetary Policy: A Legal-Economic Analysis”, European Energy Policy – 10 years of the Lisbon Treaty, ed A. Herranz Surralles, Centrum Europejskie Natolin, 2022

7.     A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Governing EU Banks after the Global Financial Crisis: From Regulation to Governance”, The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis, eds Y Cassis and J.-J. van Helten, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

8.     A. SmoleÅ„ska and P. Peridis, “Benchmark administrators as gatekeepers: Accountability and policy effects, Regulating finance in Europe: Policy effects and political accountability, eds A Héritier and J Karremans, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021

9.     A. SmoleÅ„ska and A. Héritier, “Critical infrastructure (CCPs): political accountability and the policy effects of EMIR”, Regulating finance in Europe: Policy effects and political accountability, eds A Héritier and J Karremans, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021

10.  J. Ganderson, A. Héritier and A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Technological innovation and regulation in Capital Markets Union”, Governing Finance in Europe: A Centralisation of Rulemaking?, eds A Héritier and M Schoeller, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020

11.  F. Bulfone and A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Power to the ESMA: centralisation of regulatory structures for central counterparties” (with), Governing Finance in Europe: A Centralisation of Rulemaking?, eds A Héritier and M Schoeller, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020

12.  A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Legal differentiation in EU Banking Law”, Major trends in Banking Union and Capital Markets Union, ed L Silvia Morais,  CIRSF University of Lisbon, 2020

13.  A. SmoleÅ„ska, “SRB – lost and found in the thicket of EU financial regulation”, Banking Union and the EU Constitution, eds S Grundmann and H Micklitz, Hart Publishing, 2019

14.  S. Grundmann, C. Petit and A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Banking Governance – the EU Regime” (with), Le traitement des difficultés des établissements bancaires et institutions financières: Approche croisee, ed F Barrière, LexisNexis, 2018

15.  A.SmoleÅ„ska, “Connecting and disconnecting critical financial market infrastructures: oversight and regulation of CCPs after Brexit”, The changing geography of finance and regulation in Europe, eds F Allen, E Carletti, J Gray and M. Gulati, EUI, 2017

Reports and policy papers

  1. A. SmoleÅ„ska, P. Tokarski, “Euro od/nowa. Scenariusze Integracji Polski ze strefÄ… euro”, Instytut Reform, 2023

  2. A. SmoleÅ„ska, “Barriers to development of sustainable finance market in Poland”, ICF/Wise Europa, DG REFORM/Ministry of Finance Project

  3. S. Dikau, N. Robins, A. SmoleÅ„ska, J. Van ‘T Klooster and U. Volz, „ Net zero transition plans: a supervisory playbook for prudential authorities”, LSE Grantham Research Institute, 2022

  4. Sz. Ananicz, P. Buras and A. SmoleÅ„ska,„Nowy rozdziaÅ‚. Transformacja Unii Europejskiej a Polska”, Batory Foundation, 2021

  5. A Czerniak and A. SmoleÅ„ska, „Poland without the euro”, Przyjazne PaÅ„stwo Foundation/Polityka Insight, 2019

  6. E. Carletti and A. Smoleńska, Co-operation between Competition Agencies and Regulators in the Financial Sector: 10 years on from the Financial Crisis, Note for OECD, 2017

  7. A. Smoleńska, "Overview of State Aid in the Financial Sector and Bank Resolution", Understanding Bank Recovery and Resolution in the EU: A Guidebook to the BRRD, World Bank Group, 2017

Op-eds, blog posts and press

1.     D. Ramos Munoz, A. SmoleÅ„ska, “The Governance of ESG Ratings and Benchmarks (Infomediaries) as Gatekeepers: Exit, Voice and Coercion”, Oxford Law Business Blog, November 2023.

2.     A. SmoleÅ„ska, P. Tokarski, „Poland is back as a key player in Brussels”, LSE EUROPP Blog, October 2023

3.     A. SmoleÅ„ska, P. Tokarski, „The elephant in the room in Poland’s election? Joining the euro”, LSE EUROPP Blog, September 2023

4.     “Ochrona frankowiczów a stabilność finansowa – pozorny spór”, Rzeczpospolita, April 2022 (with Mateusz Grochowski)

5.     „ Prawo i ekonomia polityczna (LPE)”, PrzeglÄ…d Prawa MiÄ™dzynarodowego Blog, May 2022 (with Mateusz Grochowski)

6.     “The EU’s green banking agenda isn’t sustainable — yet”, International Politics and Society, March 2022

7.     “Greening Banks in the Face of Uncertainty. On the ECB’s New Supervisory Approach to Environmental and Climate-Related Risks”, VerfassungBlog, November 2020 (with Jens van ‘t Klooster)

8.     “Opening up ECB’s Black Box and Painting it Green – the Monetary Policy Mandate in the Age of New Challenges and Uncertainty”, JustMoney.org Roundtable: Monetary Policy in the EU, February 2021

9.     “Nowelizacja budżetu UE: ocena i perspektywy. Komentarz” (with PaweÅ‚ Wiejski), Batory Foundation, June 2020.

10.  “Taxonomy Regulation: Creating a common language for the environment and finance”, EBI Briefin No. 3 Sustainable Finance, March 2020

11.  “Eurozone Reform and Differentiated Integration after Brexit”, DCU’s Brexit Institute Blog, February 2020

12.  “Why a step backwards for Eurozone reform could be a step forwards for differentiated integration in the EU”, DCU’s Brexit Institute’s Bridge Blog, December 2019

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