Peter Praet: Household heterogeneity and the transmission mechanism Dinner speech by Mr Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the ECB Conference on Household Finance and Consumption, Frankfurt am Main, 17 October 2013.
Thus, the Bank of Greece contributed to mitigating the adverse impact of the sovereign debt crisis on economic activity. 4  BIS central bankers’ speeches  Heightened uncertainty in the first half of 2012 posed major risks to the banking system In the January–September 2012 period, the banking groups listed on the Athens Exchange recorded losses of EUR 5.1 billion.