This paper examines changes in bank capital and capital regulations since the global financial crisis, in the Europe and Central Asia region. It shows that banks in Europe and Central Asia are better capitalized, as measured by regulatory capital ratios, than they were prior to the crisis....

On May 11-12, 2011, SUERF, the Belgian Financial Forum, the Brussels Finance Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) jointly organised the 29th SUERF Colloquium New paradigms in money and finance? The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the...

Especially structured finance instruments were blamed as main reason for the financial crisis 2007, but the understanding for the motivation to originate securitization products is less discovered. Therefor this paper tries to identify main balance sheet characteristics of structured finance...

Die globale Finanzmarktkrise 2007-2009 hat gezeigt, wie stark ganze Volkswirtschaften von der Stabilität eines reibungslos funktionierenden Finanzsystems abhängen. Problematisch ist beispielsweise die Systemrelevanz einzelner Akteure, da diese im Notfall mit öffentlichen Mitteln gerettet...