This paper seeks to identify the most important global drivers of credit-to-GDP gaps for 35 countries. The analysis is performed on a country-by-country basis for the sub-periods 2000Q1:2007Q2, 2007Q3:2013Q4, and 2014Q1:2021Q1 and is based on two state-of-the-art methods for variable selection...

The study empirically assesses how macroprudential policy interacts with systemic risk, industrial production, and monetary intervention on a global level from January 2006 to December 2018. We adopt the aggregate proxies of these variables, capturing their global effects, and use a novel...

The paper aims to indentify and compare the determinants of the overall FinTech market expansion and its major segments – cryptocurrency and peer-to-peer lending markets – in a dataset, which covers 64 countries and 51 potentially relevant factors. To this end, we apply a battery of...

This study examines the evolution of research on systemic risk during the 2007-2021 period, encompassing the Global Financial Crisis, European financial crisis, the outbreak of the COVID-19 and a number of other notable episodes undermining global financial stability. Our research goal is...

We propose a sentiment-based financial stress index (S-FSI) for Russia from January 2018 to June 2024. The index is based on the intensity of internet searches in Russian via Google and Yandex for terms with negative connotations about financial stability. The terms in our index form a unique...