The paper uses bank- and instrument-level data on asset holdings and liabilities to identify and estimate a general … equilibrium model of trade in financial instruments. Bilateral ties are formed as each bank selects the size and the … lead to less amplification of partial equilibrium shocks, (ii) the influence of a bank's equity is independent of the size …

controlling for bank specific and macroeconomic determinants of bank profitability. Bank profitability is proxied by return on … significant negative effect on bank profitability only in the long run. Generally, the explanatory variables used in the study … have short run and long run effects on bank profitability, although the impact is not uniform across the different measures …

institutions: banks and bank management -- Financial industry structure -- Regulating the financial system -- Central banks … reserve and the european central bank -- The central bank balance sheet and the money supply process -- Monetary policy …: stabilizing the domestic economy -- Exchange-rate policy and the central bank -- Money growth, money demand, and modern monetary …