proposal rightly endows the European Central Bank (ECB) with broad authority over banks within the supervisory mechanism …

This paper considers the implementation challenges facing the Basel Committee's new proposals on bank capital standards …

The European Central Bank (ECB) recently became engaged in macro-prudential policies and the micro …

). Finally, we use bank fundamentals to estimate the cost of equity for unlisted banks. In general, unlisted banks are found to …

The Bank of England, the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the European Central Bank (ECB) have responded to the crisis with … exceptional initiatives resulting in a major increase in their balance sheets. After the ECB's end-2011 launch of three-year bank … differences remain: the Bank of England and Fed have mostly relied on large-scale purchases of government bonds, while the ECB has …