Fred Malherbe
Bio
Frederic Malherbe is a Professor of Economics and Finance at UCL and a Research Fellow at the CEPR. Fred's research interests include financial intermediation, banking regulation, and political economy. He has published in, amongst others, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics.
Fred is the Centre for Finance (Co)Director and the head of the Finance, Accounting, and Economics group at UCL School of Management and is also currently serving as Director for Finance post-graduate programmes.
Research
The Cross-Border Effects of Bank Capital Regulation
Saleem Bahaj and Frederic Malherbe
Journal of Financial Economics (2024), 160, 103912.
Beyond Pangloss: Financial Sector Origins of Inefficient Economic Booms
Frederic Malherbe and Michael McMahon
Journal of Monetary Economics (2024), 145, 103558
The Forced Safety Effect: How Higher Capital Requirements Can Increase Bank Lending
Saleem Bahaj and Frederic Malherbe
Journal of Finance (2020), 75(6), pp.3013-3053
Pipeline Risk in Leveraged Loan Syndication
Max Bruche, Frederic Malherbe, and Ralf Meisenzhal
Review of Financial Studies (2020), 33(12), pp.5660-5705
Optimal Capital Requirements over the Business and Financial Cycles
Frederic Malherbe
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (2020), 12(3), pp.139-74
Get Rid of Unanimity Rule: The Superiority of Majority Rules with Veto Power
Laurent Bouton, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, and Frederic Malherbe
Journal of Political Economy (2018), 126(1), pp.107-149.
Unanimous Rules in the Laboratory
Laurent Bouton, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, and Frederic Malherbe
Games and Economic Behavior (2017), 102, pp.179-198.
Self-fulfilling Liquidity Dry-ups
Frederic Malherbe
Journal of Finance (2014), 69, pp.947-970.
Financial Contagion
Robert Kollmann and Frederic Malherbe
In: Gerard Caprio (ed.), Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability (2013), 2, pp.139-143
Bank Capital Requirements and Bank Lending: From Theory to Empirics to Policy
S. Bahaj, C. Lattanzio, and F. Malherbe
Forthcoming in the Handbook of Macroprudential Regulation
What Determines How Banks Respond to Changes in Capital Requirements?
Saleem Bahaj, Jonathan Bridges, Frederic Malherbe and Cian O’Neill
Bank of England Working Paper No.593
Market Discipline and Securitization
Frederic Malherbe