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...

Weaknesses at large financial institutions have often played a central role in the triggering and propagation of systemic financial crises. The 2007-09 financial crisis was only the most recent example. Since the crisis, authorities worldwide have sought ways to strengthen regulation and...

The Macroeconomic Assessment Group (MAG) was established in February 2010 by the chairs of the Financial Stability Board and Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to coordinate an assessment of the macroeconomic implications of the Basel Committee's proposed reforms. The membership of the MAG...

This paper analyses the impact of the new Basel III liquidity standards, in particular the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR), on the implementation of monetary policy in the Euro area. I develop a conceptual framework to investigate the interaction between the money market and monetary policy...

While regulatory capital buffers are expected to be drawn to absorb losses and meet credit demand during crises, this paper shows that banks were unwilling to do so during the pandemic. To the contrary, banks engaged in forms of pro-cyclical behaviour to preserve capital ratios. By employing...