From the onset of the 2007-2009 crisis, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have aggressively lowered … has partial control over bank regulation it can exercise regulatory lenience. Two, the Fed’s stronger output orientation …

This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets … that banks have a common regulator. In our model, the failure of one bank can undermine the public’s confidence in the … forbearance to the initially failing bank in the hope that it - and hence other vulnerable banks - survives. By contrast, public …

Europe’s financial structure has become strongly bank-based – far more so than in other economies. We document that an … paper concludes by discussing policy solutions to Europe’s “bank bias”, which include reducing regulatory favouritism …

non-bank-regulated segments of the financial sector. Over the recent past, this interconnection has increased, likely …

bank activity has on interbank markets. In our model, banks optimize a portfolio of risky investments and riskless excess … household deposits. We then introduce a central bank into the model and show that central bank activity enhances financial … stability. We model the default of a large bank and analyse the resulting contagion effects. This is compared to a common shock …