This paper examines alternative ways to prevent losses from bank insolvencies. It is widely viewed that transparency in … reporting bank balance sheets is a key element in reducing such losses. It is, however, unclear just how such transparency would … develop a model that compares two alternative institutions for bank auditing. Neither of these institutions would require as …

) little susceptibility to manipulation; (iv) timeliness; (v) scalable from the individual bank to the system. We show how this …

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 …

bank tax, and the U.S. administration has revived its own proposal for such a charge. This paper considers the structure … for taxing bank borrowing, perhaps as an adjunct to minimum capital requirements, at marginal rates that rise quite … higher than those of the bank taxes so far adopted or proposed …

In this paper, we develop a methodology to assess potential losses to the government that could arise from bank … as a group of banks including global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) …

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 …

that arises in case of resolution or bankruptcy. This net benefit, which may be capitalized into the value of the bank … distress despite increasing encumbrance of the bank’s balance sheet. The benefit is maximized when resolution is initiated …