Author Archives: Francesc Rodríguez Tous

Data visualisation and macro-prudential regulation

During the pre-crisis period, or the micro-prudential one, mapping the whole financial sector was not very important: the focus was to ensure individual solvency. Nowadays two things have changed: much more data is being collected by supervisors, and much of … Continue reading

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Job market placement

After several months I write again. One of the most important reasons for taking so long has been the job market process. As some of you may know, during the last year of our PhD studies we participate in a … Continue reading

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Monetary Policy and Risk-Taking

In the last post we saw that Jiménez et al. (2012) showed that banks react to a monetary policy expansion by increasing credit supply, and that is particularly strong for ‘weaker’ banks. This is what it is known as the ‘lending … Continue reading

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Monetary Policy and Credit Supply

In the last post I discussed the ‘new empirical banking literature’. I explained that the main advance of this literature is to control for any firm heterogeneity, which determines most of the credit demand. They can do that because they … Continue reading

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New Empirical Banking Literature

During the last six years, there has been an important increase in top-published articles on empirical banking. Needless to say, the financial crisis has contributed to this increase; however, the most important change has come from the availability of very … Continue reading

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Research productivity of PhD graduates

Less than one year to finish my PhD -if everything goes as it is supposed, and bad luck and me do not cross paths-, so it is a good time to know what we should expect when we start working … Continue reading

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Credit cycles and systemic risk

CREI (a research institute sponsored by UPF) publishes the ‘Opuscles‘, which are usually written by a professor from UPF or UAB and describe the research interests of the author. The last number (35), published on December 2013, was written by … Continue reading

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Past and present

Right after starting this blog, I had a crazy week of teaching. I actually enjoy teaching. It is one of these things that you never consider but, when you are somehow forced to do it, you change your opinion. I … Continue reading

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Start

First day to work (I was sick last week) of a year that promises to be extremely interesting and exciting. In order to make it even better, I start this blog. I don’t know exactly what I am going to … Continue reading

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