Biographical note: Anat Admati is the George G. C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She serves on the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee and has contributed to the "Financial Times", "Bloomberg News", and the "New York Times". Martin...

Die Arbeitsgruppe Wettbewerb des Wirtschaftspolitischen Ausschusses im Verein für Sozialpolitik hat ihre Jahrestagung 2010 der Frage "Reform der Finanzmarktregulierung" gewidmet. Der vorliegende Band, der von Prof. Peter Oberender (Universität Bayreuth) herausgegeben wird, setzt seinen...

The disappointingly slow recovery in the U.S. from the recent recession and financial crisis has once again focused attention on the relationship between financial frictions and economic growth. With bank loans having only recently started growing and still sluggish, some bankers and borrowers...

This paper studies how Uruguay's regulatory framework was gradually strengthened to address shortcomings identified during the 2002-03 crisis, to align with international standards and, more recently, to deal with cyclical pressures resulting in an acceleration of bank lending. In particular,...

This article describes important determinants of the current financial crisis. In particular, the text focuses on the bounded rationality of banks which contributes to the credit cycle. The credit cycle is the mechanism that links the present financial crisis with earlier crisis. Shortcomings on...