1. FDI in a downturn : trends and lessons learned -- 2. Place brands: 'guarantors' of investment -- 3. Protectionism and neo-imperialism -- 4. The investor perspective -- 5. Politics and public diplomacy -- 6. Where next for FDI?

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...

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...

Utilising a unique data set with annual accounts from around 37,000 Danish non-financial firms spanning one and a half decade or so, we offer microeconometric evidence on bankfirm relationships and the performance of non-financial firms during the financial crisis 2008-09. Two major conclusions...

In this paper, we use the axioms introduced in Eisenberg and Noe (2001) and Rogers and Veraart (2013) and study their consequences in terms of optimal sets of defaulting firms. We show that, from this point of view, the Absolute Priority axiom is not independent. We also show that the optimal...

The analysis of bank failures enables the understanding of the relevant financial and economic factors underlying the bank's solvability and survival in a sound and competitive banking system, allowing a preventive behavior for bank management and regulators.This research is focused on the study...

We examine the link between bank competition and financial stability using the recent financial crisis as the setting. We utilize variation in banking competition at the state level and find that banks facing less competition are more likely to engage in risky activities, more likely to face...