Banks will want to influence the bank regulator to favor their interests, and they typically have the means to do so …

In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences … through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the …

The crisis in Europe has underscored the vulnerability of European bank funding models compared to international peers …. This paper studies the drivers behind this fragility and examines the future of bank funding, primarily wholesale, in … possible policy options and bank actions to enhance European bank funding models’ robustness …

We reconsider the design of welfare-optimal monetary policy when financing frictions impair the supply of bank credit …

with bank-level data to study the contagion potential of an exogenous shock via credit and funding risks. We find that …-linear function of the combination of network structures and bank-specific characteristics …

The paper focuses on the impact of diversification on bank performance and how consolidation through mergers and … indigenous banks, as compared to foreign competitors in the ECCU. We then simulate bank mergers both within and across ECCU … countries by combining individual banks' balance sheets. The simulation shows that a typical indigenous bank could better …