The global financial and economic crisis has struck Iceland with extreme force. Iceland’s three main banks, accounting for almost all of the banking system, failed in October 2008. They were unable to resist the deterioration in global financial markets following the failure of Lehman...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the relationship between surges in capital inflows and the probability of subsequent banking, currency and balance-of-payment crises. Using a panel of developed and emerging economies from 1970 to 2007, it is shown that a large capital inflow...

This paper reviews key policy messages and warnings about developments in the run-up to the global financial and economic crisis that began in mid-2007 which are contained in the main publications of the IMF, the OECD and the BIS and discuss issues relevant to strengthening their surveillance...

A stable relationship between monetary policy rates and bank lending and deposit rates faced by consumers and companies is essential for the effective transmission of monetary policy decisions. This paper studies how changes in the policy rate set by the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, have...

Les PME ont une structure de financement bancaire spécifique par rapport aux grandes entreprises et ne bénéficient pas de ce fait des mêmes conditions de financement. L’article examine les principaux facteurs explicatifs des taux des crédits accordés aux PME et met en évidence...

In the wake of the Great Recession, a massive monetary policy stimulus was provided in the main OECD economies. It helped to stabilise financial markets and avoid deflation. Nonetheless, GDP growth has been sluggish and in some countries lower than expected given the measures taken, and...

La Banque de France, la revue American Economic Journal : Macroeconomics, l’École d’économie de Paris ainsi que les centres de recherche ECARES et CEPR ont organisé une conférence sur les enseignement macroéconomiques à tirer de la crise financière. Crise de la dette souveraine,...