We study at an individual level the prices that banks pay for liquidity, measured here by overnight rates charged for unsecured loans on the e-MID trading platform, which is an important and transparent money market for European banks. Using data from both before and within crisis sub-periods,...

We exploit the establishment of a supranational supervisor in Europe (the Single Supervisory Mechanism) to learn how the organizational design of supervisory institutions impacts the enforcement of financial regulation. Banks under supranational supervision are required to increase regulatory...

We show that the presence of executive directors with prior experience in the finance industry is pervasive on the boards of European national banking supervisors. Up to one executive out of three has previously held positions in the industry she supervises (or in closely connected ones)....

The Eurosystem's asset purchase programmes reduced the free float of German Bunds. Market participants feared impaired market functioning in the Bund market and monetary policymakers unintended consequences for monetary policy transmission. We study the intended and unintended consequences of...

The housing and the mortgage lending market are of particular interest to regulators for two reasons. First, housing markets mostly generate a large part of an economy’s GDP. Second, the loans granted to finance residential property account for a major share of an economy's total bank lending....

The apolitical nature of the monetary policy is a myth. As far as the ECB secondary objectives (Article 3(3) TEU) are concerned, it is worth mentioning the CSPP´s bias in favour of polluters, as firms whose securities are purchased under the CSPP have a disproportionate carbon footprint. Such...

This contribution to the Festschrift for the Centenary of the Swiss National Bank discusses the prospects for monetary stability and financial stability after the creation of the European Monetary Union. Topics covered include the robustness of institutional arrangements and their implications...

We review the initial effects of the imposition of caps on interest rates in Peru's financial system. We developed a methodology that allows us to quantify the potential exclusion of clients. We found that financial institutions excluded close to 243 thousand clients from the financial system....

Recent proposals for a still missing European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS) argue in favor of a reinsurance framework. In this paper, we use a regime-switching open-economy DSGE model with bank default to assess the relative efficiency of such a scheme. We find that reinsurance by EDIS is more...

We investigate if all European IBOR rates are similarly susceptibile to turbulence as LIBOR rates. We also analyze systemic risk spillovers between different IBOR rates in Europe and between these rates and the studied banking systems between 2006 and now. We employ a set of innovations in...