The financial crisis of 2007-2008 led to extraordinary government intervention in firms and markets. The scope and depth of government action rivaled that of the Great Depression. Many traded markets experienced dramatic declines in liquidity leading to the existence of conditions normally...

We identify the impact of short-term interest rates on credit risk-taking by analyzing a comprehensive credit register from Spain, a country where for the last twenty years monetary policy was mostly decided abroad. Discrete choice, within borrower comparison and duration analyses show that...

Este documento estudia el impacto de los programas de compra de bonos soberanos implementados por el Banco Central Europeo desde 2014, centrándose en la dinámica del diferencial de rendimiento de los bonos soberanos de España y Portugal. El análisis confirma que, si bien los factores...