the presence of institutional investors affects volatility and liquidity in secondary bank bond markets. We find that non-bank … financial intermediaries, in particular money market funds (MMFs), have a positive impact on secondary bank bond markets …' liquidity conditions, at the cost of significantly increasing volatility of daily returns. The effect translates to more than a …

bank and auction rates in its open market operations in times of financial market stress. In a theoretical model, it is … found that marginal rates at central bank auctions may increase if the share of troubled banks becomes too high relative to … market operations needed to absorb large stress levels in interbank money markets and hence contain central bank auction …

eurozone. My results also suggest that these shocks are a plausible source of aggregate risk that could explain business cycle …

This paper studies the impact of cyclical systemic risk on future bank profitability for a large representative panel … risk predict large drops in the average bank-level return on assets (ROA) with a lead time of 3-5 years. Based on quantile … local projections we further show that the negative impact of cyclical systemic risk on the left tail of the future bank …

This paper assesses the sources of volatility persistence in Euro Area money market interest rates and the existence of … linkages relating volatility dynamics. The main findings of the study are as follows. Firstly, there is evidence of stationary … volatility processes. The first factor shows how persistent volatility shocks are trasmitted along the term structure, while the …

of collateralized risky debt. The presence of moral hazard creates a link between the volatility in bank asset returns … and bank leverage. We find that, while standard TFP shocks fail to replicate the volatility and cyclicality of leverage …, volatility shocks are relatively successful in doing so …

between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping … and Italy to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main derivations of the model. We … estimate an extended set of elasticities of bank credit with respect to a series of productivity measures of firms. We focus …