This paper studies the effectiveness of Euro Area (EA) fiscal policy, during the recent financial crisis, using an estimated New Keynesian model with a bank. A key dimension of policy in the crisis was massive government support for banks—that dimension has so far received little attention in...

We analyze the impact of the countercyclical capital buffers held by banks on the supply of credit to firms and their subsequent performance. Countercyclical ‘dynamic’ provisioning unrelated to specific loan losses was introduced in Spain in 2000, and modified in 2005 and 2008. The resultant...

The article summarises the main contributions that were presented at the seventh biennial conference organised by the National Bank of Belgium on 11 and 12 October 2012 on the theme “Endogenous Financial Risk” (most of them are available in the NBB Working Paper series, N°s 227 to 236)....

The issue of how companies are financed, notably small companies, has been a recurring topic in the news and in numerous surveys and studies. It is especially relevant in the wake of the recent financial crisis. By using a table of aggregate revenue and expenditure developed by the Central...

Since the onset of the financial crisis, the Eurosystem has cut interest rates on several occasions and has assumed an increasingly prominent role as a financial intermediary. It stepped up its lending to liquidity-constrained banks and at the same time gave cash-rich banks the opportunity to...

The article presents a microeconomic analysis of asset formation by Belgian households and the impact which the financial crisis has had on that. For the first time, data from a survey of households’ financial behaviour are used. The survey data are a useful addition to the existing...

Diversified and focused business models may affect foreign bank efficiency differently. We investigate whether there is an optimal business model along three business dimensions—assets, funding and income—and which business model is optimal for foreign banks in a financial center....

Este trabajo intenta arrojar luz sobre las analogías históricas de la crisis actual. Para ello se compara la distribución de los rendimientos del Índice Dow Jones Industrial Average durante un período de 769 días (del 15 de septiembre de 2008, la quiebra de Lehman Brothers, hasta...

The activity in conditions of credit risk has a specific place in each banks’ performance. There is no way of imagining bank’s functioning on financial services market without its stable development. Moreover, credit capacity and, related with it, credit risk mitigation must be based on...

We examine the impact of banks' liquidity risk management on secondary loan sales. We track the dynamics of bank loan share ownership in the secondary market using data from the Shared National Credit Program, a credit register of syndicated bank loans administered by U.S. regulators. We analyze...