We provide evidence on the effect of the slope of the yield curve on economic activity through bank lending. Using … rates) boosts bank profits and the supply of bank loans. Intuitively, a higher term premium represents greater expected … profits on maturity transformation, which is at the core of banks' business model, and therefore incentivizes bank lending …

This paper empirically investigates the causes of bank failures in Japan and Indonesia. Using logistic regression … analysis of financial ratios, we explore the usefulness of domestic bank failure prediction models with a cross-country model …, deposits and in some cases the ratio of non-performing loans, are the most significant predictors of bank failure in both Japan …

This paper empirically investigates the causes of bank failures in Japan and Indonesia. Using logistic regression … analysis of financial ratios, we explore the usefulness of domestic bank failure prediction models with a cross-country model …, deposits and in some cases the ratio of non-performing loans, are the most significant predictors of bank failure in both Japan …

Our concern in this article is two-fold: first to see whether the determinants of bank distress and failure have been … risk-weighted counterparts as predictors, despite the focus on the later in the Basel framework. This paper examines bank … technique and discrete survival time analysis, to predict bank failures and draw inferences about the stability of contributing …

Central bank intervention in the form of quantitative easing (QE) during times of low interest rates is a controversial …

forecast uncertainty. We conclude with some implications for optimal monetary policy rules and central bank watchers. …

We estimate forward-looking Taylor rules on data from macroeconomic forecasts of three central banks (Bank of England …, National Bank of Poland and Swiss National Bank) in order to determine the extent to which these banks are forward looking in …

understand the monetary policy framework of a central bank, i.e. its objectives and systematic behaviour in reacting to different … central bank. This paper reviews the main conceptual issues relating to predictability, both in its short and longer …

forecast uncertainty. We conclude with some implications for optimal monetary policy rules and central bank watchers …