Content: International Finance 20/1

• Date: 01 March 2017
• Published date: 01 March 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/infi.12091

Volume 20 Issue 1 Spring 2017

CONTENTS

The fi scal costs of systemic banking crises 2

David Amaglobeli, Nicolas End, Mariusz Jarmuzek, and

Geremia Palomba

A century and three-quarters of Bank Rate and long-term

interest rates in the United Kingdom 26

Hakan Berument, Ezequiel Cabezon, and Richard Froyen

The infl uence of monetary policy on bank profi tability 48

Claudio Borio, Leonardo Gambacorta, and Boris Hofmann

Vulnerabilities to housing bubbles: Evidence from linkages

between housing prices and income fundamentals 64

MeiChi Huang

COMMENTARY

Central banks—are their reputations and independence

under threat from overburdening? 92

Otmar Issing

BOOK REVIEW SECTION: Migration

Economic aspects of international labour migration 100

Federico S. Mandelman and Andrei Zlate

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