We explore the hypothesis that the substitutability/complementarity relationship between banking and shadow banking services is a major factor affecting the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. We take the parametric approach to demand analysis, which allows estimation and testing in a...

The Central Bank of Ireland and SUERF organised a joint conference in Dublin on 20th September, 2010 on the general theme of Regulation and Banking after the Crisis. In the best traditions of SUERF, the programme included papers and presentations from the three main constituencies of SUERF:...

Following the financial crisis, the share of non-performing loans has significantly increased, while the regulatory guidelines on the Internal-Ratings Based (IRB) approach for capital adequacy calculation related to defaulted exposures remains too general. As a result, the high-risk nature of...