This paper investigates asymmetric co-integration and causality effects between financial development and economic growth for South African data spanning over the period of 1992 to 2013. To this end, we make use of the momentum threshold autoregressive (MTAR) approach which allows for threshold...

This paper analyses the flow of credit in the UK economy in the years before and after the 2008 financial and economic crisis, with particular emphasis on the corporate sector and the SME segment. It carries out a comparative flow-of-funds analysis highlighting the parallelisms and differences...

Few areas of monetary economics have been studied as extensively as the transmission mechanism. The literature on this topic has evolved substantially over the years, following the waxing and waning of conceptual frameworks and the changing characteristics of the financial system. In this paper,...

A közelmúltban több olyan tanulmány, publicisztika látott napvilágot Magyarországon, amely a pénzügyi rendszer .eltorzult. fejlődését, a .pénzvilág. túlzott befolyását elemezte. E tanulmány megírásának célja a .pénzvilággal kapcsolatos félelmek. összetevőinek...

The study investigates the effect of interest rates on customer savings behavior in the Nigerian banking sector, after identifying a host of factors that are likely to influence customer confidence in commercial banks such as average income, commercial lending, legal rights strength, central...

We analyze the impact on lending standards of monetary policy rates and macroprudential policy before the 2008 crisis, and of monetary rates and long-term public liquidity during the crisis. Exploiting the euro-area institutional setting for monetary and prudential policy and using the Bank...

The credit boom prevailing in the period preceding the last financial crisis was prolonged and associated with neither particularly strong output growth nor rising inflation in economies in which it occurred. This type of credit cycle and financial cycle is hard to reconcile with existing...

The model shows how monetary policy affects the supply of bank loans, highlighting the difference between bank reaction to a monetary shock in the short run (fixed equity) and in the long run (endogenous equity). Results: I) Capital requirements matter, even if banks are well capitalized: the...

Several commentators, most notably Harvard law professor Lucian Bebchuk, have called for greater shareholder control over public firms. Yet an extensive academic literature suggests that shareholders enjoy net benefits from board governance. Why, then, do so many observers believe shareholders...

This paper presents a methodology to estimate the intraday liquidity that systemically important entities (SIE) need to fulfill all its obligations in a timely fashion, when a simulated failure-to-pay from its main liquidity supplier by discretionary concepts of payment occurs. Using the Bank of...