Markets Programme (SMP). Using detailed security holdings data at the bank level, we show that banks exposed to this …

The paper examines the impact of central bank regulatory policies on market power in Africa. The study presents a … the central bank (i.e. monetary and macro-prudential policies) enhance banks' market power. Also, it reveals that central … bank regulatory policies are better coordinated, as complements, in achieving greater market power of banks in countries …

Bank (ECB), must safeguard according to Article 128 TFEU: the availability of optimal monetary objects for the public …

. However, bank customers will only turn to the new business model of web-based financial intermediation if the economic …

cumulative abnormal returns (|CAR|) of stress-tested bank holding companies averages almost 3 percent. Cumulative abnormal …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …