bank suffering from liquidity shocks, we find that the unregulated bank keeps too much liquidity and monitors too little. A … central bank can alleviate the liquidity problem, but induces moral hazard. Therefore, we introduce an additional authority … that is able to bail out the bank either by injecting capital at a fixed return or by receiving an equity claim. This …

We analyse the implications for the pricing of bank loans of the reform of capital regulation known as Basel II. We …-sensitive standardized approach of Basel II. We also show that only an extremely high social cost of bank failure might justify the proposed …

the market for bank loans and how a central can compensate such shocks. The need for unconventional measures derives from … the size of these shocks and the zero lower bound of the central bank's policy rate. Under such conditions the central … bank can only stabilize the loan market by providing direct loans to the non-bank sector. A by-product of this approach is …

. Using a model of a systemic bank suffering from liquidity shocks, we find that the unregulated bank keeps too much liquidity … induces moral hazard. Therefore, we introduce a fiscal authority that is able to bail out the bank by injecting capital. This …