Este trabajo investiga los cambios en los patrones de financiación de los bancos de América Latina tras la crisis financiera global. Para ello introducimos una nueva medida de la exposición de los sistemas bancarios locales a los mercados internacionales de deuda: emisiones internacionales de...

Large fiscal financing needs, both in advanced and emerging market economies, have often been met by borrowing heavily from domestic banks. As public debt approached sustainability limits in a number of countries, however, high bank exposure to sovereign risk created a fragile inter-dependence...

This paper presents the Slovak Republic’s Financial System Stability Assessment Update including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Banking Supervision and Insurance Regulation. Commercial banks are by far the dominant financial institutions, though nonbank financial...

In a standard stylised frame derived from Diamond Dybvig, banks operate within a network of debt contracts where liquidity shock distribution is unknown. Working in network enables banks to reduce the amount of liquid reserves and to decentralize a Pareto Optimal allocation while it is...

In a Diamond and Dybvig [1983] frame where liquidity shocks are unknown, banks embbed into a network of partners in which to embed so as to decentralize Pareto optimal allocation. Doing so, they increase investment in long term assets, and welfare. The resulting network structure tackles the...

Upon entry into the European Union, countries become members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), with a derogation from adopting the euro as their currency (that is, each country joining the EU commits to replace its national currency with the euro, but can choose when to request...