The appropriate design of monetary policy in integrated financial markets is one of the most challenging areas for central banks. One hot topic is whether the rise in liquidity in recent years has contributed to the formation of price bubbles in asset markets. If strong linkages exist, the...

This paper explores liquidity movements in stock and Treasury bond markets over a period of more than 1800 trading days. Cross-market dynamics in liquidity are documented by estimating a vector autoregressive model for liquidity (that is, bid-ask spreads and depth), returns, volatility, and...

The financial crisis of 2007-09 highlighted the changing role of financial institutions and the growing importance of the shadow banking system, which grew out of the securitization of assets and the integration of banking with capital market developments. This trend was most pronounced in the...

The unfolding financial turmoil in mature economies has prompted the official and private sectors to reconsider policies, business models and risk management practices. Regardless of its future evolution, it already threatens to become one of the defining economic moments of the 21st century....

While knowing there is a financial distress when you see it might be true, it is not particularly helpful. Indeed, central banks have an interest in understanding more systematically how their communication affects the markets, not least in order to avoid unnecessary volatility; the markets for...

2003 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of SUERF. To mark this milestone, some time ago the Council of Management commissioned Professor Jean-Paul Abraham to write a commemorative report. His mandate was not to write a history of SUERF itself (that would be too self-indulgent) but to...

Der Beitrag beleuchtet im Rahmen einer Event-Studie für Deutschland, Großbritannien, Japan und die Vereinigten Staaten das Verhalten des Bruttoinlandsprodukts, des privaten Konsums, der Investitionen, der Kreditvergabe an den privaten Sektor, der Inflationsrate und der Geldpolitik in der...

Gerhard Illing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München analysiert die Geld- und Fiskalpolitik in der Wirtschaftskrise: Kernproblem ist ein Konflikt zwischen Preis- und Finanzmarktstabilität: Die labile Konjunktur würde eigentlich niedrige Zinsen erfordern; niedrige Zinsen ermuntern aber die...

Gerhard Illing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München analysiert die Geld- und Fiskalpolitik in der Wirtschaftskrise: Kernproblem ist ein Konflikt zwischen Preis- und Finanzmarktstabilität: Die labile Konjunktur würde eigentlich niedrige Zinsen erfordern; niedrige Zinsen ermuntern aber die...

Even though the sector of Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFI) or shadow banks represent a large part of the contemporary financial system, these institutions received almost no attention in macroeconomic studies so far. Their presence has significant influence on the conduct of monetary...