We study the effects of a bank’s engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long … leads trading in banks to become increasingly risky, so that problems in managing and regulating trading in banks will …

taking up the revived debate on whether central banks should "lean against the wind" or not. Currently, there is no consensus …

do they mitigate, and how large are these effects? We show that by purchasing government bonds, central banks induce …

banks and supervisory authorities of all EU member states. This paper describes the design and structure of the new data set …

While there is a growing debate among researchers and practitioners on the possible role of central banks and financial … existing and novel prudential approaches to incentivizing the decarbonization of banks' balance sheets and align finance with …

This study measures liquidity creation within a sample of 153 banks operating in 12 Middle Eastern and North African … (MENA) countries from 2008 to 2017. We found that these banks created a total of $461.32 billion in liquidity in 2017 …, approximately 1.51 times the total liquidity created in 2008, mainly driven by commercial banks in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC …

towards a broader market-based financing of financial assets. As a consequence, regulated banks increasingly focus on coping … the financial system, i.e. to shadow banks highly relying on securitization and repos. Unfortunately, economic history has … unilateral inclusion of shadow banks into the regulatory framework, i.e. without access to central bank liquidity, has negative …