A second-generation model of currency crises is combined with a standard model ofbanks as providers of insurance against liquidity risk. In a pegged exchange rateregime, after funds have been committed to the banks, news arrives about the qualityof the banks’ assets and about the exchange rate...

[...]This paper analyses these debates using the case study of the Netherlands in the early 1920s. The literature argues that it is during this decade that the Netherlands experienced her one and only traditional banking crisis from 1600 to the present day, and after which her short-lived...

I explain the key failure mechanics of large dealer banks, and some policy implications. This is not a review of the financial crisis of 2007–2009. Systemic risk is considered only in passing. Both the financial crisis and the systemic...

This paper identifies two types of market failures. The first concerns a coordination problem associated with panics. The problem in analysing this type of market failure from a policy perspective is that there is no widely accepted method for selecting equilibria. The second market failure...

In spring 2010 the Euro-crisis culminated with the threatening state insolvency of Greece and Ireland. By high billion credits to both member states European Union provided an emergency fund (750 bn Euro) to avoid a similar shock like with the breakdown of US-bank Lehman Brothers and to avoid a...

Instrumentell betrachtet ist die Finanzmarktkrise darauf zurückzuführen, dass zunächst eine Reihe von Kreditinstituten in Finanzinstrumente investiert hatten, deren Funktionsweise sie nicht vollständig verstanden hatten und deren Risiken sie nicht korrekt bewerten konnten. Als die ersten...

The global financial crisis that began in mid-2007 has renewedconcerns about financial instability and focused attention onthe fundamental role of central banks in preventing andmanaging systemic crises. In response to the turmoil, centralbanks have made extensive use of both new and existing...