Bank liquidity and the cost of debt
Bank of England
Since the 2007–09 crisis, tougher bank liquidity regulation has been imposed which aims to ensure banks can survive a severe funding […]
Macroeconomics
Brexit and Foreign Investment in the UK
University of Warwick
Since the outcome on the UK’s exit (‘Brexit’) from the European Union (EU) referendum there has been much comment on […]
Uncertain Kingdom: nowcasting GDP and its revisions
Bank of England
Nikoleti Anesti discusses a new econometric framework to nowcast macroeconomic data subject to revisions, and uses it to predict UK […]
Lending relationships and the collateral channel
Bank of England
Corporate investment is known to respond strongly to cyclical swings in firms’ collateral values. This collateral channel is a key […]
Banks are not intermediaries of loanable funds
Bank of England
In the intermediation of loanable funds model of banking, banks accept deposits of pre-existing real resources from savers and then […]
Let’s talk about the weather: the impact of climate change on central banks
Bank of England
Misa Tanaka examines the channels via which climate change and policies to mitigate it could affect a central bank’s ability to […]
A tiger by the tail: estimating the UK mortgage market vulnerabilities from loan-level data
Bank of England
Following the global financial crisis, macroprudential regulators in a number of countries took actions to mitigate risks arising from stressed mortgage […]
The Bank of England: 1950s to 1979
Cass Business School
Forrest Capie discusses the history of the Bank of England from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. This period […]
Central Bank Independence: Can it Survive a Crisis?
Cass Business School
Central bank independence has for many years appeared to be a successful way of ensuring low inflation. But that independence […]
