the demands for currency and bank loans were normally at seasonal peaks and money markets were at their tightest. Moreover …

address the following questions. How are macroeconomic shocks transmitted to bank risk and other banking variables? What are … the sources of bank heterogeneity, and what explains differences in individual banks’ responses to macroeconomic shocks …? Our paper has two main findings: (i) Average bank risk declines, and average bank lending increases following expansionary …

framework in which fractional reserve banks emerge in equilibrium, where bank assets are funded with liabilities made demandable … in government money, where the terms of bank deposit contracts are affected by the liquidity insurance available in … financial markets, where banks are subject to runs, and where a central bank has a meaningful role to play, both in terms of …

Department of Economic Analysis and Research at the Central Bank of Cyprus, and an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Economics …