We study the stability of the banking system after a mortgage shock when a discretionary bailout policy is applied. Results suggest that the authority should be focused on preventing contagion. The decision over the appropriate policy depends upon the goal which the authority wants to pursue....

On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.

Does monetary policy affect funding vulnerabilities of the banking system? I show that contractionary monetary policy shocks cause an aggregate outflow of retail deposits and an inflow of non-core market-based funding. Using a newly constructed worldwide dataset covering the liability structure...

The difficult situation of the German banking sector at least according to the basic tenor of many contributions is raised to the threatening ranks of the "disease" the Japanese banking industry is suffering from. Such a statement labelling "German banks Turning Japanese" is the very issue of a...

We analyze how financial crises affect international financial integration, exploiting euro area proprietary interbank data, crisis and monetary policy shocks, and variation in loan terms to the same borrower on the same day by domestic versus foreign lenders. Crisis shocks reduce the supply of...