The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a significant negative impact on the world economy and financial markets due to its global nature and severity. This paper aims to comprehensively investigate the dynamics of short-, medium- and long-term risk spillovers across the major financial markets in the...

This paper examines the driving effect of economic policy uncertainty on bank systemic risk with a distinction between systemic linkage and bank tail risk. Using bank-level data of 25 economies during the period 2010-2020, we find consistent and robust evidence that policy uncertainty is...

This paper examines the driving effect of economic policy uncertainty on bank systemic risk with a distinction between systemic linkage and bank tail risk. Using bank-level data of 25 economies during the period 2010-2020, we find consistent and robust evidence that policy uncertainty is...

The eight years from 2000 to 2008 saw a rapid growth in the use of securitization by UK banks. We aim to identify the reasons that contributed to this rapid growth. The time period (2000 to 2010) covered by our study is noteworthy as it covers the pre-financial crisis credit-boom, the peak of...