Authors: Miguel Ampudia and Skander Van den Heuvel Date: November 2018 Abstract: This paper examines the effects of monetary policy on the equity values of European banks. We identify monetary policy shocks by looking at changes in the EONIA one-month and two-year swap contract rates during narrow windows around the press statements and press conferences[…]

Authors: Pierre-Richard Agénor, Leonardo Gambacorta, Enisse Kharroubi and Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva Date: October 2018 Abstract: This paper studies the effects of prudential regulation, financial development, and financial openness on economic growth. Using both existing models and a new OLG framework with banking and prudential regulation in the form of capital requirements, the first[…]

Authors: Mathias Hoffmann, Egor Maslov, Bent E Sørensen and Iryna Stewen Date: October 2018 Abstract: The interplay of equity market and banking integration is of first-order importance for risk sharing in the EMU. While EMU created an integrated interbank market, “direct” banking integration (in terms of direct cross-border bank-to-real sector flows or cross-border banking-consolidation) and[…]

Authors: José L. Fillat, Stefania Garetto and Arthur V. Smith Date: October 2018 Abstract: The global financial crisis of 2008 was followed by a wave of regulatory reforms that affected large banks, especially those with a global presence. These reforms were reactive to the crisis. In this paper we propose a structural model of global[…]

Authors: Eugenio M Cerutti and Haonan Zhou Date: September 2018 Abstract: We analyze the joint impact of macroprudential and capital control measures on cross-border banking flows, while controlling for multidimensional aspects in lender-and-borrower-relationships (e.g., distance, cultural proximity, microprudential regulations). We uncover interesting spillover effects from both types of measures when applied either by lender or[…]

Authors: Stefan Avdjiev, Uluc Aysun and Ralf Hepp Date: September 2018 Abstract: We find that the lending behaviour of global banks’ subsidiaries throughout the world is more closely related to local macroeconomic conditions and their financial conditions than to those of their owner-specific counterparts. This inference is drawn from a panel dataset populated with bank-level[…]

Authors: Marina Azzimonti, and Vincenzo Quadrini Date: September 2018 Abstract: We study how cross-country macroeconomic spillovers caused by sovereign default affect equilibrium bailouts. Because of portfolio diversification, the default of one country causes a macroeconomic contraction also in other countries. This generates a self-interest for these other countries to bailout the defaulting country. A novel[…]

Authors: Björn Richter, Moritz Schularick, and Ilhyock Shim Date: September 2018 Abstract: Central banks increasingly rely on macroprudential measures to manage the financial cycle. However, the effects of such policies on the core objectives of monetary policy to stabilise output and inflation are largely unknown. In this paper, we quantify the effects of changes in[…]

Authors: Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte, and Gianmarco Ottaviano Date: September 2018 Abstract: Using a novel dataset on the 15 European banks classified as G-SIBs from 2005 to 2014, we find that the impact of foreign expansion on risk is always negative and significant for most individual and systemic risk metrics. In the case of individual[…]

Authors: Ilhyock Shim, and Kwanho Shin Date: September 2018 Abstract: We investigate if financial stress in countries where international banks are headquartered is a major driver of banking outflows from emerging market economies (EMEs). We find that when financial stress measured by sovereign or bank CDS spread or corporate bond spread increases, international banks decrease[…]