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 …

a less efficient allocation of failed banks. Our results provide new insights into the bank resolution process and the …

intervention and careful management at both the strategic and individual bank levels. This paper highlights the range of …

) 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 …

The paper suggests that when firms differ stochastically in their productivity, a bank may find it optimal not to bail …

This paper shows that a central bank, by announcing and committing ex-ante to a bailout policy that is contingent on …