Business cycles imply liquidity risks for banks. This paper explores how these risks influence bank lending over the cycle. With forward-looking banks, lending cycles, credit booms and busts, or suppressed and highly fragile bank systems can emerge, depending on the magnitude of liquidity risks....

On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...

The interest in corporate governance has grown globally over the past decade, due to the numerous financial scandals. These particularly related to the transparency, disclosure, control and accountability, and the board which might be able to prevent such scandals in the future. For emerging...

Contents: 1. Jürgen von Hagen, Jean Pisani-Ferry - Forum Economique Franco-Allemand /Deutsch-Französisches Wirtschaftspolitisches Forum ...1 -- 2. Karel Lannoo - Financial Supervision in EMU ...3 -- 3. Charles Wyplosz - Economic Policy Coordination in EMU: Strategies and Institutions...36 --...