The 5th joint SUERF/Bank of Finland joint conference was held in Helsinki on 13 June 2013. The general theme of the …

Building on the work of Sorge and Virolainen (2006), we revisit the data on aggregate Finnish bank loan losses from the …

a basic model of financial intermediation, but adds several local banks and an international bank. These banks are able …

This paper examines blanket guarantee and restructuring decisions in respect of a multinational bank (MNB) using Nash … bargaining, when the threat of a panic motivates countries to take decisions quickly. The failure of the bank would cause …, the bank is either liquidated or one – or both of the countries – recapitalizes it. The partition of the recapitalisation …

Systemic bank problems arise for a large number of causes and in spite of both active banking supervision and market … fit and proper governance. Government bank support is ultimately constrained by the need to safeguard government … creditworthiness, and bank creditors may therefore have to carry substantial parts of the loss. Monetary policy should aim for a low …

included is a discussion of changes that have occurred in the banking environment, but the emphasis is on the effects of bank …-specific microeconomic factors on the rapid acceleration in the growth of bank lending and on the heating up of competition for market share …