We analyze policy in a two-tiered monetary system. Noncompetitive banks issue deposits while the central bank issues …

conditions, credit default and bank capitalization for the transmission of macroeconomic shocks. We fit the model to euro area … empirical literature, i.e. the pro-cyclicality of bank profitability and the counter-cyclical response of firm default rates and …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …

This paper analyzes the implications of the gradual rise in bank concentration since the 1990s for the transmission of … the level of local bank concentration and bank capitalization. I find that banks operating in high-concentration markets … in local deposit and loan markets, along with bank capital requirements, lead to frictions on the pass-through to the …

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are receiving more attention than ever before. Yet the motivations for issuance … policy stances on issuance, relying on central bank speeches and technical reports. Most projects are found in digitised … which the CBDC is a direct cash-like claim on the central bank, but where the private sector handles all customer …

indeed been succesful in stimulating the credit flow of banks to the private sector. Second, we find support for the "bank … effect). The role of bank capital is, however, ambiguous. Besides the above favorable direct effect on loan supply, lower … levels of bank capitalization at the same time mitigate the size, retail and liquidity effects of the policies. The drag on …

implementing sterilization costs into the central bank's objective function the inflation bias increases. -- inflation targeting … ; exchange rate targeting ; sterilization ; debtor central bank …

-Gordon-type central bank loss function that in both cases surplus liquidity limits monetary policy autonomy. In case of fixed exchange …