January 2022: New ESRB Report – ASC publishes report on digitalisation and the future of banking

by the ESRB In a new report entitled “Will video kill the radio star?”, the ESRB’s Advisory Scientific Committee (ASC) takes stock of the many forces currently affecting Europe’s banking system (including climate change, the growth of non-banks, overbanking and the COVID-19 pandemic) and looks at how digitalisation could change the way that financial and[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper: A Theory of the Boundaries of Banks with Implications for Financial Integration and Regulation

Author(s): Falko Fecht, Roman Inderst, Sebastian Pfeil Date: January 2022 Abstract: We offer a theory of the “boundary of the firm” tailored to banks as it builds on a single risk-shifting inefficiency and takes into account interbank lending, as an alternative to integration, and insured deposit financing. It explains why deeper economic integration should cause also[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper – Spillovers at the Extremes: The Macroprudential Stance and Vulnerability to the Global Financial Cycle

Author(s): Anusha Chari, Karlye Dilts Stedman, Kristin Forbes Date: January 2022 Abstract: The effects of macroprudential policy on portfolio flows vary considerably across the global financial cycle. A tighter ex-ante macroprudential stance amplifies the impact of global risk shocks on bond and equity flows, increasing outflows significantly more during risk-off episodes and increasing inflows significantly more[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper: Voluntary Support and Ring-Fencing in Cross-border Banks

Author(s): Gyöngyi Lóránth, Anatoli Segura, Jing Zeng Date: January 2022 Abstract: We study supervisory interventions in cross-border banks under different institutional architectures in a model in which a bank may provide voluntary support to an impaired subsidiary using resources in a healthy subsidiary. While a supranational architecture permits voluntary support, a national architecture gives rise to[…]