There are still remarkable gaps in the data available on the overall structure of the financial systems of major economies. This column presents rough estimates for the UK and the US that suggest some surprising structural differences between the two systems and which point to areas where better measurement is needed. The authors note that[…]
Author(s): Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan Date: October 2019 Abstract: I show that monetary policy divergence vis-a-vis the U.S. has larger spillover effects in emerging markets than advanced economies. The monetary policy of the U.S. affects domestic credit costs in other countries through its effect on global investors’ risk perceptions. Capital flows in and out of emerging market[…]
Author(s): Ricardo Lagos, Shengxing Zhang Date: October 2019 Abstract: We study the transmission of monetary policy in credit economies where money serves as a medium of exchange. We find that-in contrast to current conventional wisdom in policy-oriented research in monetary economics-the role of money in transactions can be a powerful conduit to asset prices and[…]
Author(s): Rong Fu, Jeremy Lawson, Carolina Martinez, Abigail Watt Date: October 2019 Abstract: Assessing financial conditions in China is challenging given the wide range of conventional and unconventional policy tools the authorities wield to influence economic and market variables. We utilise principal component analysis to construct a new index that captures the most important policy[…]
CfP Deadline Date: January 15, 2020 Conference Event: June 4 – 7, 2020 postponed to August 6-9, 2020 Event Location: Conference Center of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Greece Keynote speaker(s): Rama Cont, University of Oxford, UK Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, Italy Jean-Charles Rochet, University of Geneva, Switzerland Organizer(s): the[…]
Author(s): Lucy White and Ansgar Walther Date: October 2019 Abstract: Recent reforms give regulators broad powers to “bail-in” bank creditors during financial crises. We analyze efficient bail-ins and their implementation. To preserve liquidity, regulators must avoid signaling negative private information to creditors. Therefore, optimal bail-ins in bad times depend only on public information. As a[…]
One of the markets banks use to fund lending in foreign currencies – namely, using FX swaps to fund FX lending synthetically – has seen large dislocations in its pricing since the Global Crisis. This column documents that such dislocations affect the supply of cross-border FX credit of UK-based banks. Access to foreign relatives matters as banks[…]