Even though the sector of Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFI) or shadow banks represent a large part of the contemporary financial system, these institutions received almost no attention in macroeconomic studies so far. Their presence has significant influence on the conduct of monetary...

We operationalize the definition of systemic risk provided by the IMF, BIS, and FSB and derive testable hypotheses to identify indicators of systemic risk. We map these hypotheses into a two-stage hierarchical testing framework, combining insights from the early-warning literature on financial...

Die Regulierung von Finanzinstituten erfuhr in den letzten Jahren einen grundlegenden Paradigmenwechsel. Hierbei wurde die Idee einer makroprudentiellen Bankenregulierung neu aufgegriffen. Makroprudentiell meint, dass im Gegensatz zum mikroprudentiellen Pendant nicht die individuellen Risiken...

With an emphasis on contributing to macroeconomic pedagogy we examine the collateral multiplier by comparing it to the traditional money multiplier in a simplified framework of traditional banking and shadow banking in which government bonds are the core assets. While the money multiplier is a...