College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and Banks. The conference focused on core aspects of banking reform … regulation, recovery and resolution, and risk culture. …

banks' portfolio of public debt and reduces the percentage holdings in the case of central banks. Better sovereign ratings …We analyze domestic, foreign, and central banks holdings of public debt for 31 countries for the period of 1989 … also increase (decrease) the share of commercial (central) banks' holdings. Furthermore, the effects of an increment in the …

The paper investigates the factors crucial in the locational decisions of multinational German banks in selected … characteristics. Results indicate that FDI by non-banks exerted a strong pull effect on banking FDI flows, as did highly developed …

The paper discusses the question of whether financial participation of multilateral development banks does prompt … private investors to inject more risky equity capital in emerging market banks. Using a theoretical model, it is stipulated …

wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the … manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific … shareholders may not be socially optimal in banks. …