Explicit deposit insurance is a crucial ingredient of modern financial safety nets. This paper investigates the effect of deposit insurance adoption on individual bank leverage. Using a panel of banks across 117 countries during the period 1986-2011, I show that deposit insurance adoption pushes...

The paper investigates, from the welfare and growth point of view, the determination of the optimal capacity of the banking system. For that purpose, we consider an overlapping generation model with endogenous growth. There is horizontal differentiation and imperfect competition in the banking...

Small and medium-sized enterprises are a centrepiece of Europe's economy. Due to their limited size and their generally lower creditworthiness, their access to financial market instruments is more limited than for large enterprises, which benefit from more elaborate Treasury operations,...

Malgré un contexte économique toujours difficile, le total des crédits accordés aux professionnels de l’immobilier par les principales banques françaises, tel qu’il ressort de l’enquête annuelle du Secrétariat général de l’Autorité de Contrôle prudentiel et de Résolution...

The French housing market showed some recovery in 2013 amid furthermoderate price falls in the Paris area, Île de France and the rest of the country,at -1.5%, -1.6% and -1.4% respectively, and as interest rates stabilised athistorically low levels. The volume of transactions for existing homes,...

In a context of declining housing sales and decreasing prices, the annual survey on housing finance carried out by the Autorité de Contrôle prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) recorded a 27.6% decrease in loans extended in 2012. Outstanding loans experienced their lowest annual growth since...

In a still depressed global economic environment, the main French banks significantly reduced their production to the commercial property sector in 2012 (-13.3%).1 This decrease is similar to the one observed between 2008 and 2009 (-13.2%) and mainly stems from two components: on the one hand,...

La structure du patrimoine financier des ménages français et son évolution sont des éléments importants dans l’appréciation de la situation des banques et des assurances. Cette structure évolue peu depuis 2011 ; à fin juin 2013, les placements des ménages sont composés...

Les banques françaises ont évolué en 2013 dans un environnement qui a globalement marqué des signes d’apaisement, notamment sur le front des dettes souveraines des pays sous stress de la zone euro. Pour autant, du fait de la poursuite des plans de redressement des comptes publics dans...