With the Great Crisis of 2008-2009 we have witnessed a relevant episode of macroeconomic vulnerability affecting many countries. To what extent such vulnerability has depended upon the design of light touch (LT) banking regulation? And to what extent other institutional factors, different from...

In 2005 the European Commission has adopted the so called Third Directive on Anti-Money Laundering (AML), which was to be implemented into the national laws at the latest in December 2007. The key feature that characterizes the Third Directive is the idea that the regulatory framework should be...

This paper investigates the relative impact of capitalization on risk-taking efficiency in Islamic and conventional banks. In particular, we test whether changes occurring to the capital structure of different types of banks unevenly affect their behavior in terms of risk-taking efficiency....

We empirically investigate whether central bank independence (CBI) and the monetary policy setting can jointly influence the likelihood that policymakers assign banking supervision to central banks. We find that, conditional on the government being a benevolent one, higher central bank...

This paper investigates the effects of the intra-European posting of workers on domestic labour markets in the years 2007-2009. Instrumental variables related to migrant labour and neighbouring countries' populations are used to address the endogeneity between posting and labour market features....

We explore the combined effects of increasing both the efficiency of bankruptcy proceedings and the severity of expected sanctions on the probability that credit agreements involve usu-rious interest rates. Depending upon the institutional setup, we find that that either: a) marginal...