On November 14th, 2014, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum – and CNMV, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – the Spanish Authority for supervision of securities markets – jointly organized a conference in Madrid: Challenges in Securities Markets Regulation: Investor...

This paper presents a framework to study of technological resiliency of financial system architecture. Financial market infrastructures, or platforms, compete with services critical functions along various stages in the lifecycle of a trade, and make investments in technological resiliency to...

Securitization is a financial innovation that experiences a boom-bust cycle, as many other innovations before. This paper analyzes possible reasons for the breakdown of primary and secondary securitization markets, and argues that misaligned incentives along the value chain are the primary cause...

On November 14th, 2014, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum – and CNMV, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – the Spanish Authority for supervision of securities markets – jointly organized a conference in Madrid: Challenges in Securities Markets Regulation: Investor...

This paper investigates the potential aggravation of the Debt Overhang problem in banking stemming from the introduction of the new Basel III liquidity ratio: the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR). By replacing short for long term debt (or terming out long term debt) on the back of the NSFR, banks...

This study examines hedge fund performance over the ongoing Sub-prime and credit crisis. We will determine how funds have changed their strategies to cope with the recent downturn. We will also conduct a post mortem analysis on failed and underperforming funds to determine “what went wrong”...

The largest U.S. banks have adopted, in a staggered manner, an environmental and social risk management framework. Based on a large sample of borrowers, utilizing a staggered difference-in-differences design, we document a significant increase in environmental protection provisions in the loan...

What is the effect of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) on financial stability? We answer this question by studying a model of financial intermediation with an endogenously determined probability of a bank run, using global games. As an alternative to bank deposits, consumers can also store...

Recent empirical work has shown that current account deficits have been associated with lower growth in developing countries while they have been associated with higher growth in developed countries. This paper shows that this can be rationalized in an environment where firms face (i)...