This paper contributes to the current debate on what role financial stability considerations should play in monetary policy decision and how best to integrate macro-prudential and monetary policy frameworks. The paper broadly supports the view that monetary policy easing induces greater...

Since 1970 there has been a phenomenal growth in the establishment of foreign commercial banks in the United States thus altering the competitive dimension of US banking markets. An analysis of the state of foreign banking presence in the United States is here provided using recent disaggregated...