We analyze the impact of financial crises and monetary policy on the supply of wholesale funding liquidity, and also on the compositional supply effects through cross-border and relationship lending. For empirical identification, we draw on the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset...

Once upon a time, economists saw capital account liberalization--the free and unrestricted flow of capital in and out of countries--as unambiguously good. Good for debtor states, good for the world economy. No longer. Spectacular banking and currency crises in recent decades have shattered the...

Understanding twenty-first century global financial integration requires a two-part background. The Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial...

In den EU-Mitgliedstaaten hat die öffentliche Verschuldung eine hohe Bedeutung. Demgegenüber schenkte die Forschung in der Vergangenheit den Wirkungen der Laufzeit und Struktur der Staatsschuld nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit. In diesem Buch werden fiskalische und gesamtwirtschaftliche Ziele des...