Author/Editor: Valentina Flamini, Pierluigi Bologna, Fabio Di Vittorio, Rasool Zandvakil.

Release Date:February, 2019

Credit is key to support healthy and sustainable economic growth but excess aggregate credit growth can signal the build-up of imbalances and lead to systemic financial crisis. Hence, monitoring the more...

Author/Editor: Pierluigi Bologna.

Release Date:March, 2018

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to study the determinants of banks’ net interest margin with a particular focus on the role of maturity transformation, using a new measure of more...

Author/Editor: Pierluigi Bologna.

Release Date:July, 2011

This paper tests the role of different banks'' liquidity funding structures in explaining the banks'' failures, which occurred in the United States between 2007 and 2009. The results highlight that more...

Author/Editor: Pierluigi Bologna.

Release Date:October, 2010

This paper reviews Australian banks’ performance from an international perspective, with a focus on changes in capital and liquidity risk. The paper analyses the extent of any vulnerability that more...

Author/Editor: Jennifer A Elliott, Aditya Narain, Ian Tower, José Vinãls, Pierluigi Bologna, Michael Hsu, Jonathan Fiechter.

Release Date:May, 2010

The quality of financial sector supervision has emerged as a key issue from the financial crisis. While most countries operated broadly under the same regulatory standards, differences emerged in more...

Author/Editor: Ananthakrishnan Prasad, Pierluigi Bologna.

Release Date:March, 2010

This note assesses the impact of the global financial risks on Oman's banking system and highlights the remaining risks. It concludes that the liquidity and prudential measures introduced by the more...