This paper models and estimates ex ante safety-net benefits at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003-2008. Our results suggest that difficult-to-fail and unwind (DFU) banks enjoyed substantially higher ex ante benefits than other institutions. Safety-net benefits prove...

The European experience suggests that the efforts made to achieve an efficient trade-off between monetary policy and prudential supervision ultimately failed. The severity of the global crisis have pushed central banks to explore innovative tools-within or beyond their statutory...

Why did European policy-makers introduce the Banking Union? Which are its main features? How does it affect banks and their customers? This book tries to answer these questions, by providing a clear description of the building blocks of the Banking Union, and by showing that several issues...

Geschichtliche Entwicklung des Meldewesens -- Meldewesen für Banken: COREP-Meldungen, FINREP-Meldungen -- Meldewesen für Versicherungen, Pensionskassen: Solvency II -- Ausblick auf zukünftige Entwicklungen und die Harmonisierung des Meldewesens. .

This book studies relationship dynamics between National Competent Authorities (NCAs) within two agencies governing the European banking sector: the European Banking Authority and the Single Resolution Board. The analysis centres on NCAs policy preferences and the variety thereof, particularly...

Haftungsrelevante Geschäftsleiterpflichten im Kontext der MaRisk -- Anforderungen der CRR an das Risikomanagement als Ergänzung zu den MaRisk -- Grundlagen und Konsequenzen der Finanzinformationenverordnung -- Art und Umfang der Finanzinformationen von Kreditinstituten auf Einzelebene.

In this paper we revisit the debate over the role of the banking panics in 1930-33 in precipitating the Great Contraction. The issue hinges over whether the panics were illiquidity shocks and hence in support of Friedman and Schwartz (1963) greatly exacerbated the recession which had begun in...

This paper sets forth a discussion framework for the information requirements of systemic financial regulation. It specifically describes a potentially large macro-micro database for the U.S. based on an extended version of the Flow of Funds. I argue that such a database would have been of...