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 …

The authors use simulations within the BoC-GEM-FIN, the Bank of Canada's version of the Global Economy Model with … changing bank regulations on the Canadian economy. Specifically, they compute short- and long-run impacts on key macroeconomic … that, while long-run effects on bank loans, lending spreads, investment, and output are modest, the short-run effects are …

This chapter documents some little known features of bank governance involving bank boards and describes regulation and … laws that are likely to influence bank governance. It also describes how organizational form and activities of banks may … influence bank boards and provides some new evidence on these influences. The chapter points out some potential problems with …

the most dynamic areas of bank activity. The aim of this article is to present an existing situation and perspectives for …

to supervision and resolution of international banks. International financial institutions, like the Bank for … European Central Bank is currently assuming the financial stability mandate for the European banking system …

2007-2009. The fear is that if a big bank gets into trouble, its problems will infect other financial institutions and … there are huge complexities at almost every level. What is “big?” How big is too big? What is a “bank?” What kinds of risk …-taking are appropriate for a bank – and why? What do we know about the costs and benefits of different strategies? This paper …