The role of banking -- Risk management and banking failures -- The role of the accounting information in banking failures -- Corporate Governance and banking failures -- Banking resolution and its key concepts and tools -- Conclusion.

Housing markets, which are large and subject to sharp swings, shape to a great extent countries’ exposure to economic crises and their capacity to recover from them. This paper analyses the transmission of housing-related shocks to the real economy: it investigates the role that policy plays...