Nous considérons l'activité de création de liquidité dans un système bancaire concurrentiel de type alternativement conventionnel ou islamique, en étendant le modèle de Diamond et Dybvig (1983) aux spécificités de la finance islamique : rémunération des dépôts non prédéfinie, mais...

[eng] Can central bank independence be counterproductive ? An open economy illustration.. . This paper shows that, in a static two-country game theoretic model, delegating the monetary policy to an « independent » central bank may be counter-productive. The decision to delegate or not must be...

[fre] Taux de marché et coût du crédit dans une économie partiellement désintermédiée. . Cet article étudie la relation entre les taux de marché et le coût des crédits dans une économie où les entreprises ont la possibilité d'arbitrer entre financements bancaires et financements de...

Combining panel data on bank liquidity at the individual level and data on their macroeconomic environment, for a sample of commercial banks in emerging countries between 1995 and 2000, we show that their exists a “bank liquidity smile across exchange rate regimes”. In extreme regimes at...

Potential new entrants to the European Union from Central and Eastern European countries face many challenges to achieve financial convergence with the existing EU nations. Using detailed case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and analysis of cross country...

Combining panel data on bank liquidity at the individual level and data on their macroeconomic environment, for a sample of commercial banks in emerging countries between 1995 and 2004, we show that there exists a 'bank liquidity smile across exchange rate regimes'. In extreme regimes at both...

This paper provides an analytical grid of the Lebanese monetary policy over the recent period, through the three main constraints with which the Bank of Lebanon is confronted: public debt, the dollarization of the economy and the fixed exchange rate. The analysis shows that the Bank of Lebanon...