ECB Working Paper – Climate Change-Related Regulatory Risks and Bank Lending

Author(s): Isabella Mueller, Eleonora Sfrappini Date: June 2022 Abstract: We identify the effect of climate change-related regulatory risks on credit reallocation. Our evidence suggests that effects depend borrower’s region. Following an increase in salience of regulatory risks, banks reallocate credit to US firms that could be negatively impacted by regulatory interventions. Conversely, in Europe, banks[…]

FRS Finance and Economics Discussion Series – Enhancing Stress Tests by Adding Macroprudential Elements

Author(s): William F. Bassett and David E. Rappoport Date: May 2022 Abstract: The use of stress testing for macroprudential objectives is advanced by modeling spillovers within the financial sector or between the real and financial sectors. In this chapter, we discuss several macroprudential elements that capture these spillovers and how they might be added to[…]

SSRN Working Paper – United They Fall: Bank Risk after the Financial Crisis

Author(s): Priyank Gandhi and Amiyatosh Purnanandam Date: June 2022 Abstract: We show that the U.S. commercial banks have become increasingly similar in their risk exposure after the global financial crisis. Pairwise correlation in bank equity returns increased threefold after the enactment of annual stress tests under the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA). Non-financials and non-bank financial firms[…]

FRS Finance and Economics Discussion Series – Cyberattacks and Financial Stability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Author(s): Antonis Kotidis and Stacey L. Schreft Date: May 2022 Abstract: This paper studies the effects of a unique multi-day cyberattack on a technology service provider (TSP). Using several confidential daily datasets, we identify and quantify first- and second-round effects of the event. For banks using relevant services of the TSP, the attack impaired their[…]

SSRN Working Paper – A New Era for Financial Networks: Mandatory Bail-ins

Author(s): Zafer Kanik Date: May 2022 Abstract: This paper revisits financial networks in a model of counterparty exposures, mandatory bail-ins and complementary bailouts. Under mandatory bail-ins, the network’s role is reshaped and beyond its previous contagion-related role, because counterparty obligations, in the first place, are used for bail-ins against idiosyncratic failures. Di- versification faces a[…]

Financial Frictions in International Economics

CfP Deadline Date: September 1, 2022 Conference Event: December 12, 2022 Event Location: Paris, France Organizer(s): Banque de France The Banque de France is organizing a workshop on “Financial Frictions in International Economics” in its headquarters in Paris, on December 12. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers that work on the[…]

Frontiers of climate and nature in macroeconomics and finance

CfP Deadline Date: August 1, 2022 Conference Event: October 24-25, 2022 Event Location: Paris, France Organizer(s): Banque de France, NGFS, sustainable macro and INSPIRE The Banque de France, NGFS, sustainable macro and INSPIRE are organising a conference on frontiers of climate and nature in macroeconomics and finance, taking place in person in Paris on 24-25[…]