This paper examines how global liquidity responds to a US (United States) monetary policy shock, and whether global liquidity has effects on global imbalances. To this end we estimate regression and Panel-VARX models using data from the G5 (US, United Kingdom, Euro area, Japan and Canada) and 20...

The 2008 food price crisis was an integral part of the financial crisis. In fact, the food price crisis was the second crisis in a chain of events that began in 2007 with the mortgage crisis, and culminated in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Contrary to what was generally...

The use of macro stress tests to assess bank solvency has developed rapidly over the past few years. This development was reinforced by the financial crisis, which resulted in substantial losses for banks and created general uncertainty about the banking sector's loss-bearing capacity. Macro...