The Deutsche Bundesbank will host the “International Conference on Payments and Securities Settlement - Data and Information” at its Conference Center in Eltville, Germany on 4 and 5 July 2024. The conference, organized in partnership with the Bank of Canada, aims to bring together academic...

The organising committee invite young academics (PhD students and postdocs) dealing with theoretical or theoretically founded empirical research on banks and financial markets to submit a paper or a project outline for presentation at the 11th Workshop Banks and Financial Markets. Topics of...

Upon assuming control of Baoshang Bank, Chinese bank regulators announced that they would eschew bailing out large creditors of this city-level distressed bank in full. This paper investigates the consequences of this unexpected deviation from the long-standing full bailout policy. Employing a...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

Do sanctions strengthen the targeted regime? I analyze the 2014 imposition of Western sanctions on Russia and its impact on voting. The United States and the European Union introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to President Putin’s regime. Using polling...

Topics: - Innovation in payment and settlement systems - Blockchain/DLT and related technologies in payment and settlement systems - Digital money in payment and settlement - Application of advanced analytics and AI in payment systems - Function of RTGS systems and instant payment - Risks in...

The conference provides an excellent opportunity for policy makers, representatives of the private sector and prominent academics from around the world to gather to discuss, exchange experiences and learn from the best in the macroprudential field. Participation is by invitation only.

Using an international panel of banks, we study whether banks’ capitalization and risk-taking are shaped by their prior economic experience. We find that, on average, bank’s past undercapitalization experience leads to more prudent lending and higher capitalization. However, we show that...