The transmission of monetary policy actions to credit markets is substantially influenced by the changing economic environment. Since the start of the Great Recession, credit markets not only have been the source of macroeconomic disturbances but they have also been instrumental in the...

This small, informal conference features high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.

Credit market dynamics have increasingly influenced macroeconomic developments in recent years. Notably, since the start of the recent Great Recession, credit markets have been a major source of macroeconomic disturbances as well as being important in the transmission of shocks originating...

The Barcelona Banking Summer School offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and...

This small, informal conference features high quality theoretical or empirical research papers on financial intermediation.

The objective of the course is to present state of the frontier research on systemic risk and to illustrate its implications for micro and macro prudential regulation as well as monetary and competition policy. The course will begin with the definition, characterization, measurement and analysis...

Topics relating to money markets: - The functioning of the transmission mechanism and optimal design of the monetary policy implementation framework in the new market environment - The impact of market fragmentation on monetary policy implementation; empirical studies on segmentation in the euro...

This conference brings together senior policy-makers and academics to examine the circumstances in which the financial sector could be considered “too big”. In doing so, the conference is designed around three sessions, each devoted to a particular mechanism by which an oversized financial...

The Barcelona Banking Summer School offers a variety of courses taught by recognized experts in their fields. The courses cover recent developments in different areas of banking, including theoretical and empirical aspects of banking, banking regulation and supervision, financial markets and...

The aim of the conference is to foster an exchange of knowledge and views between practitioners, researchers and policy-makers on topics related to emerging market finance. During the prolonged period of monetary accommodation in advanced economies emerging market economies have been faced with...