Recent Activity

About the Barcelona Center for Banking Studies

• Produce research which can help to understand and manage processes in the banking sector properly.
• Communicate research findings via events and publications.
• Reduce the distance between academic findings and practical implications.
• Regulation of systemic risk, pro-cyclicality, capital adequacy, liquidity regulation, systemically relevant banks and macro-prudential regulation.
• Credit and liquidity provision by bank and non-bank financial intermediaries to corporations.
• Corporate governance of financial institutions.
• Liquidity, hedging and risk management by financial institutions, asset and liability management, maturity mismatch, self-insurance.
• Monetary policy transmission channels through financial intermediaries (the risk-taking channel, unconventional monetary policy and others).
• The transmission of financial shocks to the real economy.
• Financial crises and systemic risk.
• Relationship lending and the governance role of creditors in the corporate sector.
• The role of institutional investors in the corporate sector: market finance versus banks.