In response to the recent global financial crisis, the regulatory authorities in many countries have imposed stringent capital requirements in the form of the BASEL III Accord to ensure financial stability. On the other hand, bankers have criticized new regulation on the ground that it would...

"We present a model of shadow banking in which financial intermediaries originate and trade loans, assemble these loans into diversified portfolios, and then finance these portfolios externally with riskless debt. In this model: i) outside investor wealth drives the demand for riskless debt and...

Der Beitrag des Finanzsystems zu wirtschaftlichem Wachstum und die Bedeutung der Banken sowie des organisierten Kapitalmarkts werden in der ökonomischen Literatur kontrovers diskutiert. Strittig ist insbesondere, ob das kontinentaleuropäische Modell der Universalbanken oder das...