Topics: Without limiting the scope of topics, areas of particular interest are: - regulation, firms, and financial intermediation - law, politics, and finance - monetary policy, inflation, and financial resilience - macroprudential policy and real estate - financial networks and systemic risk -...

The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

Economists typically make simplifying assumptions to make the solution and estimation of their highly complex models feasible. These simplifications include approximating the true nonlinear dynamics of the model, disregarding aggregate uncertainty or assuming that all agents are identical. While...

What is the impact of granular credit risk on banks and on the economy? We provide the first causal identification of single-name counterparty exposure risk in bank portfolios by applying a new empirical approach on an administrative matched bank-firm dataset from Norway. Exploiting the fat...

Topics: - regulation, firms and financial intermediation - law, politics and finance - unconventional fiscal and monetary policy - macroprudential policy and real estate - digitalisation of financial institutions and markets - financial networks and systemic risk - pricing of climate risk in...