We examine how banks' cross-border lending reacts to changes in liquidity regulation using a new dataset on Individual Liquidity Guidance (ILG), which was enacted in the UK from 2000 to 2015 and is similar to the Basel III Liquidity Coverage Ratio. A one percentage point increase in liquidity...

This paper examines whether cross-border spillovers of macroprudential regulation depend on the organisational structure of banks' foreign affiliates. Our analysis compares the response of foreign banks' branches versus subsidiaries in the United Kingdom to changes in macroprudential regulations...

Since the 2007–09 crisis, tougher bank liquidity regulation has been imposed which aims to ensure banks an survive a severe funding stress. Critics of this regulation suggest that it raises the cost of maturity transformation and reduces productive lending. In this paper we build a bank run...

Since the 2007–09 crisis, tougher bank liquidity regulation has been imposed which aims to ensure banks can survive a severe funding stress. Critics of this regulation suggest that it raises the cost of maturity transformation and reduces productive lending. In this paper we build a bank run...

Over the last decade, banks around the world have been confronted with substantialmisconduct costs. We employ provisions for misconduct costs as an instrumentalvariable to identify the causal effect of a bank capital shock on risk-taking.Using new hand-collected data, we show that misconduct...

Since the crisis financial regulators and supervisors have been given increased independence from political bodies. But there is no clear evidence of the benefits of these reforms on the stability of the banking sector. This paper fills that void, introducing a new dataset of reforms to...

We use a new database on macroprudential policy actions to examine whether macroprudential regulations affect international banking flows. We find evidence that borrowing by the domestic non-bank sector from foreign banks increases after home authorities take a macroprudential capital action. We...

By combining analysis of two unique confidential datasets, we examine how euro-area (EA) monetary policy and recipient-country prudential policy interact to influence the cross-border lending of French banks from France and the UK. We find that monetary spillovers via cross-border lending can be...

This paper explores the cross-border transmission of monetary policy by comparing and contrasting the results for two major international financial centres: Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. We examine the effect of monetary policy in the US, euro area and Japan, on UK and Hong Kong-resident...

We investigate the impact that the publication of the Bank of England's Financial Stability Report (FSR) has on the stock returns and credit default swap spreads of UK financial institutions. Examining a sample of 73 UK-listed banks and other financial institutions, we find that publication of...