Projects
The role of the central banks in regional integration: Analysing financial convergence initiatives led by the Central Bank of Brazil and the Reserve Bank of India towards a regional payment system in MERCOSUR and SAARC KU Leuven
Central banks play a significant role in promoting regional economic, financial, and monetary cooperation by upgrading the payment and settlement systems. However, close coordination and cooperation require facilitating the implementation of reforms at domestic and cross-border levels in order to benchmark with international standards. This context tends to be influenced by the interests of developed countries and the dimensions of regulatory ...
Impact of external factors on band alignment of TMDs with SiO2: WS2 versus WSe2 and MoS2 KU Leuven
Over the past 50 years Si based integrated circuits have been downscaling tremendously to create faster logic chips and high-volume memory circuits. Such scaling required significant technological advances and innovative designs. Unfortunately, as transistor channel lengths have been approaching 10 nm, it became clear that such aggressive scaling would not be sustainable for Si based transistors. In looking for solutions one addresses more ...
Bank market valuations and lending Ghent University
In the euro area, banks are the most important source of funding for the corporate sector. As a
result, the viability of the banking sector is crucial for the investment potential of the corporate
sector. However, since the crisis in 2008 bank market valuations have been in distress. This is a
threat to the role of banks as transmitter of funds to the real economy. To extend loans, banks have
to hold regulatory equity ...
Regulation, monetary policy and bank funding Ghent University
Our objective is to empirically investigate the determinants of European bank funding costs and the impact of (unconventional) monetary policy measures implemented by the ECB as well as new_prudential regulation on bank funding choices. Banks finance their assets not only with capital but_also with deposits from retail customers and funding provided by institutional investors in the form of bonds. These funding costs will determine the loan ...
Assessing the viability of European banks: A comprehensive analysis of bank earnings announcements. Ghent University
The principal objective of this research proposal is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the key drivers behind the profitability of European banks. The rationale behind the focus on profitability lies in the fundamental role it plays as the primary safeguard against potential shocks. This is especially relevant for European banks as these are faced with market-to-book ratios that are significantly lower than those of their international ...
Climate change on bank balance sheets. Ghent University
Banks and regulators increasingly recognize climate change as a source of considerable risk. Rising temperatures and increasing natural disasters threaten peopleās homes, livelihoods, and lives. Combatting these risks by limiting societyās excessive emission of greenhouse gases constitutes a major risk in and of itself that jeopardizes many firmsā financial health. While the financial system plays a central role in this problem, research on ...
Bank financing at private family firms: disentangling willingness and ability Hasselt University
The real effects of bank regulation and supervision KU Leuven
The global financial crisis of 2007-2009, the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic pushed many economies across the globe into a recession. These crises have put the regulation and supervision of the financial sector in the spotlights: regulation and supervision may be answers to soften the severity and duration of recessions. Following these crises, in particular bank-dependent economies have experienced ...
The leading bank in syndicated loans. KU Leuven
The research project seeks to clarify the role of the leading bank in syndicated loans. These are loans in which two or more banks join together to lend to a single borrower on the basis of a single set of documents. To co-ordinate this multi-party agreement, a leading bank (agent bank and/or security agent/trustee) is appointed, which, inter alia, manages the payment flows and the security interests. In the absence of a general trust ...