This paper presents an integrated theory of money and banking. I address the following question: when both individuals and banks have private information, what is the optimal way to settle debts? I develop a dynamic model with micro-founded roles for banks and a medium of exchange. I establish...

We present a theory in which the key driver of short-term debt issued by the financial sector is the portfolio demand for safe and liquid assets by the nonfinancial sector. This demand drives a premium on safe and liquid assets that the financial sector exploits by owning risky and illiquid...

This study examines the impacts of interest rate on banks' return in 14 international markets. This research covers seven financial ratios as dependent variables as well as the return of the bank. Moreover, size of the banks is a control variable. The sample of data is from 2001 until the end of...

This paper studies the effect of low interest rates on financial intermediation and the transmission of monetary policy. Using U.S. bank- and branch-level data, I document two new facts: first, the long-run decline in bond rates has not been fully passed through to loan rates; second, the...

This paper analyzes banking crises using a quantitative model with equilibrium default for both firms and banks. The main results are: 1) small open economies have larger banking crises than closed or large economies. Constant international rates do not mitigate interbank spreads and amplify...

This study aims to investigate the influence of macroeconomic factors, industry specific factors and specific factors in the bank's profitability of Indonesian banking. This research was conducted with a purposive sampling method, where the sample used is a bank listed on the Indonesia Stock...

Share prices of financial companies from the S&P 500 list have been modeled by a linear function of consumer price indices in the USA. The Johansen and Engle-Granger tests for cointegration both demonstrated the presence of an equilibrium long-term relation between observed and predicted time...

This research investigates Banks' profitability in the United Arab Emirates from 2008 to 2012 using Bankscope Data Base, Financial Statement, and quantitative methodology techniques. This study focuses on 4 banks, 2 Islamic banks (Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank - Public Joint...

We characterize how U.S. global systemically important banks (GSIBs) supply short-term dollar liquidity in repo and foreign exchange swap markets in the post-Global Financial Crisis regulatory environment and serve as the "lenders-of-second-to-last-resort". Using daily supervisory bank balance...

We study the rise and risks in bank issuance of Wealth Management Products (WMPs), which are off-balance-sheet substitutes for deposits without the regulatory interest rate ceilings and constitute the largest shadow banking segment in China. We show that competition for deposits has a causal...