Publications & Research

Staff Insights 2025


Type Title Authors Date
Outlook 2025:4 - Box 2 The fiscal and macroeconomic effects of the parent income tax reform Glenn AbelaIan DebattistaNoel Rapa 19 December 2025
Outlook 2025:4 - Box 1 The impact of Budget 2026 targets on the Bank’s fiscal projections Jessica PaceJohn Farrugia 19 December 2025
Research Bulletin - Article

Short-run spillover effects of climate shocks to small open economies: An empirical investigation

Theodossios Drossidis 28 November 2025
Research Bulletin - Article

A supply-side model of the Maltese economy

Jacopo Zacché 28 November 2025
Research Bulletin - Article

Conventional monetary policy and wealth fluctuations in Malta

Valentina AntonaroliGermano Ruisi 28 November 2025
Research Bulletin - Article

Fiscal drag in Malta 2017-2025: A microsimulation analysis

Glenn AbelaIan Debattista 28 November 2025
Research Bulletin - Article

Crumbs make a loaf using product price data to nowcast food inflation

Sarah SpiteriMassimo GiovanniniUmberto Collodel 28 November 2025
Interim FSR 2025 - Box 4 Macroeconomic drivers of insurance premia in Malta Luana Camilleri 21 November 2025
Interim FSR 2025 - Box 3 The evolution of payments transactions by licensed institutions Andrew Spiteri 21 November 2025
Interim FSR 2025 - Box 2 A credit risk-based clustering approach for banks in Malta Michele Andreani, William Gatt Fenech 21 November 2025
Interim FSR 2025 - Box 1 Impact of CRR3 on Maltese banks' risk weights Dominique Tanti 21 November 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:4 - Article EU trade relations with the United States Lorraine Bonavia 18 November 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:4 - Box 3 An analysis of credit transfers in Malta - 2024 Victoria Briffa 18 November 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:4 - Box 2 The interplay of reforms and foreign labour inflows in driving labour supply growth in Malta Aaron G. Grech 18 November 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:4 - Box 1 ECB Monetary Policy Strategy Review 2025 Silvio Vella 18 November 2025
Business Dialogue 2025:4 - Box 1 Persistent labour shortages and emerging workforce strategies Warren Deguara, Eliza Farrugia, Christine Borg, Angelica Gennaro 16 October 2025
Outlook 2025:3 - Box 2 The net expenditure path John Farrugia 19 August 2025
Outlook 2025:3 - Box 1 Inflation in passenger transport by air Maria Christine Saliba, Eliza Farrugia 19 August 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:3 - Box 6

Market for Malta Government Stocks: 2024 in review

Kimberley C. Agius, Emmanuel Farrugia 29 July 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:3 - Box 5

Liquidity conditions and monetary policy operations from maintenance period 1 to maintenance period 8 of 2024

Ritlen Abela 29 July 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:3 - Box 4

Overview of the financial assets and liabilities of the Maltese economy by institutional sector

Kimberly Vatter, Janica Borg 29 July 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:3 - Box 3

Survey on the access to finance of enterprises (SAFE) 2024: Key insights for SMEs

Sandra Zerafa 29 July 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:3 - Box 2

The usage of cheques in Malta

Silvienne Cassar 29 July 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:3 - Box 1

EU and Malta's trade with China

Lorraine Bonavia 29 July 2025
Business Dialogue 2025:3 - Box 1

Expected impact of global tariffs

Warren Deguara, Eliza Farrugia, Christine Borg, Liam Micallef, Angelica Gennaro 24 July 2025
FSR 2024 - Box 6

The policy case for an extension of the sectoral systemic risk buffer

Mariah Dimech 2 July 2025
FSR 2024 - Box 5

Analysing Directive 16, first insights from data

Sarah Vella, Matteo Panfilo 2 July 2025
FSR 2024 - Box 4

Update to expected credit loss model

David Stephen Law, Kanan Musayev 2 July 2025
FSR 2024 - Box 3

An analysis of bank-financed commercial real estate in Malta

Ariana Bartolo, Shaun Zafferese 2 July 2025
FSR 2024 - Box 2

How green are Maltese banks' portfolios?

Andrew SpiteriStefan Scerri 2 July 2025
FSR 2024 - Box 1

Insights from the Bank Lending Survey

Ariana Bartolo, Shaun Zafferese 2 July 2025
FSR 2024 - Special Feature

Cyclical risk dynamics

William Gatt Fenech, Christian Mamo 2 July 2025
Outlook 2025:2 - Box 2 Composition of government capital expenditure John FarrugiaJessica Pace 6 June 2025
Outlook 2025:2 - Box 1 US Tariffs - Malta's exposure and macroeconomic implications Nathaniel DebonoAbigail Marie Rapa, Lynn Cumbo 6 June 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:2 - Box 3 The transition between the Consolidated Fund and the general government balance Laura Bigeni 14 May 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:2 - Box 2 Fiscal developments in Malta during 2024 Jessica Pace 14 May 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:2 - Box 1 Assessing the Impact of GDP Revisions: A Comparative Analysis of Pre- and Post-Revision Data Eliza Farrugia 14 May 2025
AR 2024 - Box 3 The sustainability of Maltese government debt Ian DebattistaJohn Farrugia 30 April 2025
AR 2024 - Box 2 Economic Projections Central Bank of Malta 30 April 2025
AR 2024 - Box 1 Chronology of ECB monetary policy decisions in 2024 Central Bank of Malta 30 April 2025
Business Dialogue 2025:2 - Box 1 Sector specific analysis - Retail trade Warren Deguara, Eliza Farrugia, Christine Borg 25 April 2025
Outlook 2025:1 - Box 2 Outlook for long-term potential output Lynn Cumbo 14 March 2025
Outlook 2025:1 - Box 1 Household disposable income and saving rate - New measure and a comparison with the European Union Abigail Marie Rapa 14 March 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:1 - Box 3 Evaluating the impact of tax rebates and exemptions on the financial well-being of pensioners Kurt Sant 3 February 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:1 - Box 2 Inflation persistence over time: Developments and contributing factors Germano Ruisi 3 February 2025
Quarterly Review 2025:1 - Box 1 The evolution of the labour income share in Malta Nathaniel Debono 3 February 2025
Business Dialogue 2025:1 - Box 1 Analysis of profit trends in Maltese companies (2023-2024) Warren Deguara, Martina Cassar, Eliza Farrugia, Christine Borg 27 January 2025