1. Refereed Journal // 2014

    Bank funding, securitization and loan terms: evidence from foreign currency lending

    We examine how bank funding structure and securitization activities affect the currency denomination of business loans. We analyze a unique data set that includes information on the requested and granted loan…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2014

    Information acquisition during a descending auction

    We compare the effects of information acquisition during a descending auction with its static counterpart, the first-price sealed-bid auction. In a framework with heterogeneous prior information, we show…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2014

    Robustness, validity and significance of the ECB's asset quality review and stress test exercise

    As we are moving toward a eurozone banking union, the European Central Bank (ECB) is going to take over the regulatory oversight of 128 banks in November 2014. To that end, the ECB conducted a comprehensive…