-term interest rates to the operating procedures of the countries' central banks. Previous studies have focused on key features of …

This paper empirically investigates banks’ investment allocations over the recent business cycle. I identify … the pre-recession period, banks lend 38 percent of incremental deposits; however, during the downturn, banks favor liquid … assets and lending allocations fall to 22 percent. Banks with low risk tolerance or less access to liquidity are particularly …

This paper investigates the incentives for banks to bias their internally generated risk estimates. We are able to … by low-capital banks to improve regulatory ratios. At the portfolio level, the difference in borrower probability of … credits. In addition, we find that low-capital banks’ risk estimates have less explanatory power than those of high …

following the Y2K date change and the 9/11/2001 crisis - events that required the two central banks to deviate significantly …