Does banks’ zombie lending induced by unconventional monetary policy also allow zombie firms to leverage their trade credit borrowing? We first provide evidence suggesting that—even in Germany—particularly weak banks used the European Central Bank’s very long-term refinancing operations...

The Lehman bankruptcy highlights the potential for interconnectedness among financial firms to cause a financial crisis. Previous research shows that Chapter 11 filings cause significant negative externalities, consistent with a strong role for counterparty contagion. However, the effects may...

The Lehman bankruptcy highlights the potential for interconnectedness to cause negative externalities through counterparty contagion, but the externalities may also arise from information contagion. We examine contagion from troubled financial firms and find that counterparty contagion is...

After the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers focused on enacting improvements in two areas of financial regulation: capital and liquidity, affecting the composition of bank assets and the sources of bank funding. These improvements made both the emergence of a crisis less likely and the...

Payment systems are fundamental pillars of countries’ economic stability and financial systems. Central banks use them to promote safe and efficient electronic payments. As such, central banks have developed various tools to control and monitor inherent risks such as systemic risk, liquidity...