In this study, we benchmarked the crisis resolution frameworks of the Member States of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) with the Financial Stability Board's Key Attributes (KAs) of effective resolution regime for financial institutions, using survey-based methodology. Questionnaires,...

This paper studies liability management exercises (LME) by banks, which have comparable regulatory capital effects than contingent capital triggers. LMEs are concentrated on low capitalization situations, both in the cross-section and in the time series and are frequently associated with equity...

In this paper, we review the macroeconomic literature on financial frictions and banking in a dynamic general equilibrium framework. Our work focuses first on the pioneer articles that have analyzed the amplification effects associated to the financial accelerator. We then shift our attention...

Over the last 12 months, the supervision of liquidity has become one of the most discussed issues by the central banks and the financial market authorities. The objective of this paper is to describe the off-site liquidity monitoring framework recently implemented as one of the supervisory tools...

In this study, we benchmarked the crisis resolution frameworks of the Member States of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) with the Financial Stability Board's Key Attributes (KAs) of effective resolution regime for financial institutions, using survey-based methodology. Questionnaires,...

We derive several popular systemic risk measures in a common framework and show that they can be expressed as transformations of market risk measures (e.g., beta). We also derive conditions under which the different measures lead to similar rankings of systemically important financial...

We review the extensive literature on systemic risk and connect it to the current regulatory debate. While we take stock of the achievements of this rapidly growing field, we identify a gap between two main approaches. The first one studies different sources of systemic risk in isolation, uses...

French Abstract: La présente contribution étudie, dans une perspective avant tout juridique, les défais que les crypto-monnaies sont susceptibles de poser à la Banque Centrale Européenne dans l'accomplissement de son mandat. Elle soulève également la question si l'émission d'une monnaie...

French Abstract: Sur base de données relatives à 300 actions cotées sur le NYSE, nous montrons que les variations de liquidité qui affectent l’ensemble des actifs d’un portefeuille sont influencées par la capitalisation boursière de ces actifs. Nous montrons également que les crises...

French Abstract: Au lieu de se focaliser sur le court terme au risque d'hypothéquer l'équilibre des finances publiques et de détériorer le fonctionnement des marchés financiers sur le moyen terme, le régulateur doit prendre des mesures structurelles visant à donner aux intermédiaires...