In July, main negative trends observed in Russia's banking sector over the recent months persisted: deterioration of assets quality, reduction of the credit activity and unprofitability of banking activity

Russian Abstract: Объектом исследования данной работы является методология составления финансовых балансов по секторам экономики Российской Федерации в контексте...

Russian Abstract: Развитие российской банковской системы разделяется на несколько этапов после системного кризиса 1998 г. Каждый из этапов характеризуется различными...

The June dynamics were a natural continuation of the trends formed in the banking sector in early 2015. Banks' profits remain at the zero level. The funds of the population remain the single main source of banks' liabilities. Retail lending is contracting while corporate lending has noticeably...

This paper is a review of Danmarks Nationalbank's recent analysis of the prospects of implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in Denmark. We concur with Nationalbanken's conclusion that CBDC does not add efficiency or further functionality to existing payment solutions. We argue,...

This monograph challenges the myth that the recent banking crisis was caused by insufficient statutory regulation of financial markets. Though it finds that statutory regulation failed, and that market participants took more risks than they should have done, it appears that statutory regulation...

The quantity of reserves in the U.S. banking system has risen dramatically since September 2008. Some commentators have expressed concern that this pattern indicates that the Federal Reserve's liquidity facilities have been ineffective in promoting the flow of credit to firms and households....

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) promise to provide cash-like safety and convenience for peer-to-peer payments. To do so, they must be resilient and accessible. They should also safeguard the user's privacy, while allowing for effective law enforcement. Different technical designs satisfy...

The biggest and most well-known unsolved problem in academic finance is famously referred to as the Equity Premium Puzzle. It refers to the unexplained phenomenon that for over 100 years the average return on a well-diversified portfolio of equities has far outperformed that of risk-free,...