How Tracking of Electronic Money might Improve Financial Market Crisis Intervention

Financial market crisis and financial market channel

Banks’ Strategies and Cost of Money: Effects of the Financial Crisis on the European Electronic Overnight Interbank Market

We present an empirical analysis of the European electronic interbank market of overnight lending e-MID during the years 1999-2009. After introducing the market mechanism, we consider the activity, defined as the number of trades per day; the spreads, defined as the difference between the rate of a transaction and the key rates of the European Central Bank; the lending conditions, defined as th...

The Term Structure of Money Market Spreads During the Financial Crisis∗

I estimate a no-arbitrage model of the term structure of money market spreads during the financial crisis to attribute movements in spreads to credit and liquidity factors. The model restrictions imply that longer-term spreads are linear, risk-adjusted expectations of future short-term spreads. This linear representation of spreads can be partitioned into two components: one related to time-var...

Political Uncertainty, Financial Crisis, and Market Volatility

This paper examines the impact of political uncertainty on financial crises using a panel of twenty-two emerging markets. By examining political election cycles, we find that eight out of nine of the financial crises happened during the periods of political election and transition. Using a combination of probit and switching regression analysis, we find that there is a significant relationship ...

Political Risk, Financial Crisis, and Market Volatility

This paper examines the impact of political uncertainty on the recent financial crises in emerging markets. By examining political election cycles, we find that eight out of nine of the recent financial crises happened during periods of political election and transition. Using a combination of probit and switching regression analysis, we find that there is a significant relationship between pol...