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Monetary Policy and Credit Supply

Posted on November 27, 2014 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

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

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

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

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

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

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

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

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

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

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Francesc Rodríguez Tous

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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