We investigate the relationship of central bank independence and banks’ systemic risk measures. Our results support the case for central bank independence, revealing that central bank independence has a robust, negative, and significant impact on the contribution and exposure of a bank to...

We investigate the relationship of central bank independence and banks' systemic risk measures. Our results support the case for central bank independence, revealing that central bank independence has a robust, negative, and significant impact on the contribution and exposure of a bank to...

This study focuses on the risk-taking channel of monetary policy and its interaction with a supervisory-independence channel for commercial banks from Central and Eastern Europe, during the 2005-2011 period. Our results support the existence of an inverse relationship between expansionary...