Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression … performance of banks during the credit crisis. More specifically, we investigate whether bank performance is related to bank …-level governance, country-level governance, country-level regulation, and bank balance sheet and profitability characteristics before …

From 2010 to 2012, the relation between bank stock returns from European Union (EU) countries and the returns on …

We estimate holdings of highly-rated tranches of mortgage securitizations of American deposit-taking banks ahead of the …-rated tranches were economically trivial for the typical bank, but banks with greater holdings performed more poorly during the …-rated tranches are not higher for banks with large trading books in regressions that control for bank size. The ratio of highly …

We investigate whether a bank's performance during the 1998 crisis, which was viewed at the time as the most dramatic … crisis since the Great Depression, predicts its performance during the recent financial crisis. One hypothesis is that a bank …. Another hypothesis is that a bank's poor experience in a crisis is tied to aspects of its business model that are persistent …

minimize the length and severity of the recession, would require a stronger commitment to low interest rates for an extended …

This paper assumes that a central bank commits itself to maintaining an inflation target and then asks what measure of … the inflation rate the central bank should use if it wants to maximize economic stability. The paper first formalizes this … that a central bank that wants to achieve maximum stability of economic activity should use a price index that gives …

the ability of the central bank to alleviate the fiscal burden by influencing different terms in the government resource … seignorage is generated and subject to what constraints, (iii) whether central bank liabilities should count as public debt, (iv …) how central bank assets create income risk, and whether or not this threatens its solvency, and (v) how the central bank …

instrument of monetary policy. We show that by paying an appropriate rate on reserves, the central bank can pin the price level …

via contractions in credit and disruption in financial markets. Managing the size and composition of the central bank …

style of central banking affects central banks' solvency. A central bank is insolvent if its requirement to pay dividends to … Bank), and exchange-rate risk (central banks of small open economies). We find that a central bank that pays dividends … circumstances, the dividend will be negative, meaning that the government is making a payment to the bank. If the charter does not …