Banks cannot be made fail-safe. But they can be made safe to fail, so that the failure of a bank need not disrupt the economy at large nor pose cost to the taxpayer. In other words, banks can be made resolvable, and “too big to fail” can come to an end. To do so, the authorities, banks and...

The exposure of the argentine banking system to real interest rate changes is material and discourages long term credit. Quantification of this risk would help to manage it and may promote new credit, although it is not an easy job, especially in emerging markets. This paper proposes a Value at...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) defined operational risk (OR) as the risk of losses resulting from the inadequacy or failures in the internal processes, people and systems, or from external events. This definition includes the legal risk but excludes strategic and reputational...

The world financial crisis of 2008-2009 has shown that the existence of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) poses serious policy challenges to both developed and developing economies’ authorities. As for now there are different approaches to identifying SIFIs focused on...

This paper investigates two elements of agency costs, namely the wealth-transfer and the value destruction problems, associated with the equity-conversion and writedown CoCo bonds. By focusing on the costs as those stemming from the deviation from absolute priority rule (DAPR), we derive the...

Although efficiency has been tested previously in Colombia, studies mislead the main element which is faced by the system: risk. Most studies assume banks are risk neutral, this fact tends to underestimate efficiency, especially when a country faces an economic crisis, like the one of the late...

With a sample of twelve US bond indices spanning different maturities, credit ratings and industry sectors, we investigate the impact of new bank capital regulation for trading portfolios introduced by Basel III. Specifically, we estimate the new capital requirements for (a) liquidity risk and...

We provide a detailed classification of core and non-core liabilities for the Turkish banking system à la Shin and Shin (2010). We further carry out a two-stage liquidity stress test similar to Van Den End (2010) where we simulate inflow and outflow factors as well as the network topology of...

This paper examines the impact of regulatory reform on productivity growth and its components for Indian banks from 1992 to 2009. We estimate parametric and nonparametric efficiency frontiers, followed by Divisia and Malmquist indexes of total factor productivity, respectively. To account for...

Celem artykułu jest wskazanie potencjalnych zagrożeń dla systemu bankowego w Chinach. Zastosowaną metodą badawczą jest przegląd literatury i badań empirycznych. Wyniki analizy pokazują, że silna interwencja rządowa w dużym stopniu wpływa na powstawanie zagrożeń dla systemu...