Combining panel data on bank liquidity at the individual level and data on their macroeconomic environment, for a sample of commercial banks in emerging countries between 1995 and 2004, we show that there exists a 'bank liquidity smile across exchange rate regimes'. In extreme regimes at both...

Potential new entrants to the European Union from Central and Eastern European countries face many challenges to achieve financial convergence with the existing EU nations. Using detailed case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and analysis of cross country...

Nous considérons l'activité de création de liquidité dans un système bancaire concurrentiel de type alternativement conventionnel ou islamique, en étendant le modèle de Diamond et Dybvig (1983) aux spécificités de la finance islamique : rémunération des dépôts non prédéfinie, mais...

It is often maintained that currency boards (CBs) and gold standards (GSs) are alike in that they are stringent monetary rules, the two basic features of which are high credibility of monetary authorities and the existence of automatic adjustment (non discretionary) mechanism. This article...

RESUME :Nous considérons l’activité de création de liquidité dans un système bancaire concurrentiel detype alternativement conventionnel ou islamique, en étendant le modèle de Diamond et Dybvig(1983) aux spécificités de la finance islamique :rémunération des dépôts non...

This paper provides an analytical grid of the Lebanese monetary policy over the recent period, through the three main constraints with which the Bank of Lebanon is confronted: public debt, the dollarization of the economy and the fixed exchange rate. The analysis shows that the Bank of Lebanon...

It is often maintained that currency boards and gold standards are alike in that they are stringent monetary rules, the two basic features of which are high credibility of monetary authorities and the existence of an automatic adjustment (non discretionary) mechanism. This article includes a...