Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...

The "market discipline" of off-balance sheet banking activities (OBSA) has been reexamined by employing contingent claims valuation techniques to derive implied asset variances from bank equity and deposit insurance, and from risk-premia for bank subordinated debt. Specifically implied asset...

The financial crisis of 2007-2008 led to extraordinary government intervention in firms and markets. The scope and depth of government action rivaled that of the Great Depression. Many traded markets experienced dramatic declines in liquidity leading to the existence of conditions normally...

The "market discipline" of off-balance sheet banking activities (OBSA) has been reexamined by employing contingent claims valuation techniques to derive implied asset variances from bank equity and deposit insurance, and from risk-premia for bank subordinated debt. Specifically implied asset...

This paper provides a macroeconomic perspective for government interventions in banking crises. We illustrate how vulnerabilities of the banking sector may build up over time and thus destabilize a banking system. A crisis occurs when a large number of banks fail to meet capital requirements or...

¿Cuánto importa el canal de toma de riesgos (risk-taking channel) para la política monetaria? Para responder a esta pregunta, desarrollamos y estimamos un modelo cuantitativo macroeconómico DSGE, en el que los bancos eligen inversiones excesivamente arriesgadas, debido a un problema de...

En este trabajo mostramos que la sobrecolateralización de los pasivos garantizados bancarios se asocia de forma positiva con la prima de riesgo de su financiación no garantizada. Incorporamos esta idea en un modelo teórico en el que los costes derivados del gravamen de activos (asset...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2131