We analyze the Canadian banking system and focus on the monetary policy implementation and bank behavior during the subprime market crisis. Using a dataset on bilateral credit lines in the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) through which transactions between banks are cleared together with data...

We study the relationship between delegation within organizations and innovation incentives. When a firm owner deals with a privately informed manager who undertakes an unverifiable R&D decision, we show that an organizational mode awarding autonomy to the manager spurs innovation incentives...

We study European banks’ demand for short-term funds (liquidity) during the summer 2007 subprime market crisis. We use bidding data from the European Central Bank’s auctions for one-week loans, their main channel of monetary policy implementation. Our analysis provides a high-frequency,...