Let me now describe in more detail four features of the European labour market and labour productivity performance that will provide some useful insight on progress achieved by the euro area economy and its weaknesses.
A Seminar on Islamic Finance was organized here in 2009 and a collection of research papers on Islamic finance vs. conventional financial systems, focusing on supervision and the implications for central banking activity was published in 2010. Hosting this IFSB seminar is a fruitful occasion to further improve our knowledge and to share it with our financial community and academia.