Topics: - The connection between funding liquidity, market liquidity and arbitrage trading during the recent financial crisis; - What is the role of arbitrage trading? Is it stabilizing or de-stabilizing financial markets? - Which are the causes and consequences of asset prices distortions and...

One outcome of the recent crisis has been further consolidation of the global banking system. There are economic reasons for anticipating economies of scale in banking. Size and scope can be used to diversify risks. Aside from diversification, there may be technical and relationship lending...