We provide a critical review of the empirical and theoretical literature on bank supervision.
This review focuses on microprudential supervision: the supervision of individual banking …

We analyse the effects of supranational versus national banking supervision on credit
supply, and its interactions with monetary policy. For identification, we exploit:(i) a new …

We study the consequences for supervisors' and banks' behavior of a “hub-and-spokes”
supervisory system where a centralized agency has authority over banks but relies on local …

We study the resolution of global banks by national regulators. Single-point-of-entry (SPOE)
resolution, where loss-absorbing capital is shared across jurisdictions, is efficient but faces …

Both in the USA and in the Euro area, bank supervision is the joint responsibility of local and
central supervisors. I study a model in which local supervisors do not internalize as many …

This paper surveys the recent academic literature on the economics of cross-border
regulatory cooperation as well as recent policy developments in this area. While institutional …

This paper analyses the impact of the Banking Union on European bank credit risk.
Specifically, we investigate the effect that the establishment of the Single Supervisory …

Sovereigns usually back up their deposit insurance arrangements to lend them credibility.
When the sovereign is in distress, the credibility of deposit insurance might be threatened …

This article examines the effectiveness of cooperation among bank supervisors using novel
data on supranational agreements signed by 93 countries. Exploiting that globally operating …

The architecture of supervision–how we define the allocation of supervisory powers to
different policy institutions–can have implications for policy conduct and for the economic …