Presented by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, for the Institute of International Bankers Annual Washington Conference, Washington, DC, March 2, 2009

Presentation by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, for a Panel Discussion at the Conference on Financial Markets and Monetary Policy, Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Washington, D.C.,...

Remarks by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, to the Financial Stability Institute, Bank for International Settlements, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 24, 2011

This paper examines the characteristics of loans to Japanese borrowers using a relatively unexplored, contract-specific data set. I find that Japanese banks charge less on loans to Japanese borrowers than do foreign banks, holding constant many of the risk characteristics of the borrower....

This article examines some implications of the failure of three large Japanese banks in 1997 and 1998. The authors examine the response in the equity returns of surviving Japanese banks to the three failure announcements. In addition, they provide evidence on the clients of failed and surviving...