Showing 1 - 10 of 5,337
previous research on the role of central banks as lenders of last resort in crises and on the real effects of bank lending and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413174
After the destructive impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, many believe that pre-crisis financial market regulation did not take the "big picture" of the system suffciently into account and, subsequently, financial supervision mainly "missed the forest for the trees". As a result, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477338
"The Money Problem" highlights the role of non-insured, defaultable money equivalents as being at the root of financial panics. It suggests reforms that would establish a banking system similar to today's fractional reserve banking model, but panic-proofed and with much less regulation than is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916205
heterogeneous patterns in the interest rates paid to borrow unsecured funds once bank size and other bank and market factors that …, but the economic size of the effect is small. Bank reputation and perceived credit riskiness are the most relevant factors … “punishment”, which possibly reflects market discipline. Bank reputation becomes even more important. (3) After Lehman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100183
Numerous commentaries have questioned both the legality and appropriateness of Federal Reserve lending to banks during the recent financial crisis. This article addresses two questions motivated by such commentary: 1) Did the Federal Reserve violate either the letter or spirit of the law by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107843
reverse the bank regulation rules that were put in place following the GFC; last time, President Clinton repealed the Glass …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890522
We analyse the impact of standard and non-standard monetary policy measures on bank profitability. For empirical … identification, the analysis focuses on the euro area, thereby exploiting substantial bank and country heterogeneity within a … monetary union where the central bank has implemented a broad range of unconventional policies, including quantitative easing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945753
The failure of Lehman Brothers highlighted the severe lapses in risk management and regulatory oversight that brought on and intensified the global financial crisis. This paper presents a structural credit risk model that provides useful early warning signals that regulators could have used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035485
negligible to more than 100 bps. These findings have implications for bank profitability, but also for the transmission of … monetary policy to bank lending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314282
We introduce an innovative approach to measure bank integration, based on the corporate culture of multinational … financial reports of global banks. We employ a two-step approach: as a first step, we investigate whether parent-bank or parent …-country characteristics are more important for bank integration. In a second step, we analyze whether bank integration affects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698908