In this study, I analyze the heterogeneous dynamics of the bank risk-taking channel of monetary policy under different business models before the recent financial crisis in the U.S. I find that banks' asset-side risk-taking in a low interest rate environment exhibits heterogeneity across...

In this paper, I review some selected literature about or related to the monetary neutrality and show that specific aspects of the monetary (non-)neutrality are actually derived from the underlying welfare consideration and thus their validity or desirability depend on the current state and way...

This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on banking sector profitability in Uganda for the period spanning Q1 2000 to Q1 2021, using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL Bound) testing approach to co-integration while controlling for bank specific and macroeconomic...

On 23rd February 2017, SUERF and EY organized a conference on "Brexit and the Implications for Financial Services" at EY's offices, Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London. While the outcome of the Brexit negotiations remains highly uncertain, the conference discussed the burning questions for...

The admission by the Greek government on October 18, 2009, of large-scale accounting fraud in its national accounts sparked an unprecedented sovereign debt crisis that rapidly spread to the Euro-Zone's weakest member states. As the crisis increasingly drove a wedge between a seemingly resilient...

On 23rd February 2017, SUERF and EY organized a conference on "Brexit and the Implications for Financial Services" at EY's offices, Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London. While the outcome of the Brexit negotiations remains highly uncertain, the conference discussed the burning questions for...

An important component of monetary policy transmission is the pass-through from financial market interest rates, directly influenced or targeted by central banks, to the rates that banks charge firms and households. Yet the available evidence on the strength and speed of the pass-through is...

This paper considers money creation by banks and central banking in a model where a means of payment is issued by both the central bank and banks, and the private issuance is endogenous in competitive equilibrium. The economy lasts for two dates, but the central bank gets its purely nominal...

This paper proposes and evaluates several market-based measures for US and eurozone individual bank tail risk and banking system risk. We apply statistical extreme value analysis to the tails of bank equity prices to estimate the likelihood of individual institutions financial distress as well...