Business cycles imply liquidity risks for banks. This paper explores how these risks influence bank lending over the cycle. With forward-looking banks, lending cycles, credit booms and busts, or suppressed and highly fragile bank systems can emerge, depending on the magnitude of liquidity risks....

Der Ausbruch der Finanzkrise hat die Finanzmarktregulierung stärker ins öffentliche Interesse gerückt. Dabei ergaben sich in diesem Politikfeld schon zu Beginn der Großen Koalition kontroverse politische Debatten. Dieses Buch bietet einen praxisnahen Blick hinter die Kulissen der deutschen...

An account of the principal phases in the development of the English banking system, and an analysis of the financial structure of the economy of the UK. The book focuses in detail on the regulatory and supervisory aspects of the UK banking system, and the interactions between the structural...

This paper is about the importance of the information in Public Credit Registries (PCRs) for supporting and improving banking sector regulation and supervision, particularly in the light of the new approach embodied in Basel III. Against the backdrop of the financial crisis and the existence of...