bank lending to examine what an optimal combination of monetary policy and regulatory capital requirements might look like … that equilibrium level of central bank policy rates should be lower than they had been prior to the crisis. …

the preservation of the central bank’s legitimacy requires that a clear line be drawn between the central bank’s provision … central bank that expose it to material credit risk should be guaranteed by the Treasury. In addition, central banks must …

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 …

. 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 …

liability of banks and the presence of a negative externality of one bank’s failure on the health of other banks give rise to a … risk. Regulatory mechanisms such as bank closure policy and capital adequacy requirements that are commonly based only on a … bank’s own risk fail to mitigate aggregate risk-shifting incentives, and can, in fact, accentuate systemic risk. Prudential …

We model the interaction between two economies where banks exhibit both adverse selection and moral hazard and bank … regulators try to resolve these problems. We find that liberalizing bank capital flows between economies reduces total welfare by … considerations arise in this context. Allowing multinationals improves welfare when bank capital can flow across borders, despite the …