What has actually happened to the political economy of the United States over the last half-century? For too long now, 'neoliberalism' has been the standard answer given, yet today, the term seems to have lost both its analytic and critical capacities. Melinda Cooper's Counterrevolution offers...

Monetary policy in the euro area faces significant challenges due to the evolving economic landscape marked by the return of inflation, financial instability risks, and the consequences of unconventional monetary policy (UMP) to the operational framework of monetary policy. This article...

This report focuses on the implications of the changed inflation environment for the ECB's monetary policy strategy, including the lessons learned from both the low inflation and high inflation periods, and the transition from one to the other. The starting point of the report is the outcome of...

Monetary policy in the euro area faces significant challenges due to the evolving economic landscape marked by the return of inflation, financial instability risks, and the consequences of unconventional monetary policy (UMP) to the operational framework of monetary policy. This article...

This paper explores the relationship between banks and stablecoins and their issuers, focusing on the mechanical effects on banks' capital and liquidity ratios when issuing stablecoins or collecting deposits from stablecoin issuers. The analysis reveals that converting retail deposits into...

Using textual analysis of the largest dealers' newsletters to their clients, we construct a measure of uncertainty about the Federal Reserve's balance sheet policy (BSP). This measure of uncertainty tends to spike during the introduction of novel aspects of BSP or at its turning points, with the...

The euro area insurance sector and its relevance for real economy financing have grown significantly over the last two decades. This paper analyses the effects of monetary policy on the size and composition of insurers' balance sheets, as well as the implications of these effects for financial...

The Dutch economy is characterized by substantial financial balance sheets in the private sector. Uncommonly large gross financial assets and liabilities are found in the financial sector, whereas households own significant net financial wealth. The large gross financial assets and liabilities...

Comparability is considered by carbon accounting systems as an attribute of consistency, or making different items similar. However, financial accounting systems consider comparability as the ability to understand similarities and differences between objects. A gap exists entity-level...

The 2020 Holding Foreign Companies Accountable (HFCA) Act will force China-based firms to delist from U.S. exchanges if China fails to permit audit inspections during a two-year period. The Act also requires such firms, as soon as China blocks such inspections, to disclose ties to the Chinese...

Firms’ investment behavior is intermittent, and a significant fraction of capital formation occurs during “investment spikes”. We define financial flexibility as the capacity to accommodate investment spikes, as potentially determined by (i) external financing frictions, and (ii) the state...

We examine how financial crises redistribute risk, employing novel empirical methods and micro data from the largest financial crisis of the 20th century – the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level, we build an econometric model with incidental...

Following spikes in aggregate uncertainty, firm-level physical capital drops along with large liquidity buildup and deleveraging. Conventional macro-finance models treating corporate cash holding as net debt fail to capture the observed liquidity buildup when reproducing deleveraging, leaving an...

Industry accounting is a branch of accounting that deals with the processing, analysis, and reporting of financial information in an industrial context. The industrial sector generally involves various types of business entities operating in manufacturing, trading, services, mining, and other...

The extractive industry covers a wide range of activities, including the exploration, production and sale of non-renewable natural resources such as minerals, oil and natural gas. In general, these activities are characterized by a high degree of risk. There is a risk that exploration will not...

We find evidence that banks respond to increasing non-bank competition in the post-2012 conforming residential mortgage market by making use of their balance sheet financing capability. Loan retention decision post 2012 is in stark contrast with that before 2012 when nonbank competition was only...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the effect of the time value of money on the financial statement. The article also includes discussions on the income statement, retained earnings, statement of financial position, cash flow statement, and time value of money

The systemic risk measure (SRISK) by V-Lab provides a market view of the vulnerability of financial institutions to a sudden downturn in the economy. To overcome the shortcoming that it cannot be applied to non-listed banks, SRISK characteristics of listed banks are mapped on balance sheet...