Im März 2023 kommt es in den USA zum größten Bankenkollaps seit der Finanzkrise von 2008. Steigende Inflationsraten, verursacht durch die hohen Energiepreise infolge des Ukraine-Kriegs, und anhaltende Lieferkettenprobleme zwingen die US-Notenbank zu dramatischen Leitzinserhöhungen. Daraufhin...

The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

Decentralized Finance (DEFI) is changing the financial landscape. What are the consequences on market infrastructures, financial actors, the transmission of monetary policy? Does the concept of "Commons" introduced by Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, offer a relevant...

Andreas Fuster is an Associate Professor of Finance and SFI Senior Chair at Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL and a Research Fellow at the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research). His main research interests are in empirical finance (household finance, real estate finance, banking),...

We document the presence of significant liquidity costs in Spanish sovereign debt auctions: the larger the auctioned amounts, the lower the issuance price relative to secondary market prices. Motivated by this evidence, we characterize the optimal debt-maturity management problem of a government...

Die Schweizerische Nationalbank organisiert abwechselnd mit der polnischen Nationalbank (NBP) das NBP-SNB Joint Seminar. Seit dem Beginn im Jahr 2004 hat dieses Seminar Zentralbankerinnen und Zentralbanker aus Zentralasien, Zentral- und Osteuropa sowie Akademikerinnen und Akademiker für...

This essay studies China’s bond market development by reviewing the main characteristics of the onshore market and important liberalization steps. It also describes recent trends in debt portfolio investment flows into China by non-resident investors. The simple theoretical framework for push...

Corporate bond markets proved remarkably resilient against a sharp contraction caused by the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. We document three important findings: (1) bond issuance increased immediately when the contraction hit, whereas, in contrast, syndicated loan issuance was low; (2) Federal Reserve...

Climate change is one of the greatest economic challenges of our time. Given the scale of the problem, the question of whether a carbon tax should be introduced is hotly-debated in policy circles. This paper studies the design of a carbon tax when environmental factors, such as air...

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