This paper argues that in the European Union (EU) deposit insurance funds are too difficult to use in bank resolution … and too easy to use outside resolution. The paper proposes reforms in three areas for the effective management of bank …

rules, supervision, and market discipline-of the bank regulatory framework envisioned by the New Basel Accord (Basel II). It …

implementing a number of reforms, aimed among others at speeding up insolvency and enforcement proceedings, strengthening bank … corporate governance, cleaning up balance sheets, and facilitating bank consolidation. This paper examines the Italian banking … system's NPL problem, which ties up capital, weighing on bank profitability and authorities' economic reforms. It argues for …

This paper investigates macroprudential policy effects on bank systemic risk and the role of inflation targeting in … such effects. Using bank-level data for 45 countries comprising various monetary and exchange rate regimes, our regime … tightening of most macroprudential tools—including DSTI and LTV limits, and capital requirements—reduces bank systemic risk …

feedback effects to the real economy generated by bank failures. On a cross-section of countries, we find evidence that … suggests that bank supervisors’ intervention in bank failures may be positively associated with some aspects of the …