The deposit insurance (guarantee) industry used to attract much attention during financial crises. In the economic literature it was a moral hazard to prevail in the research. On the political agenda the level of guarantees has been in focus for a long time. The recent financial crisis proved...

The ongoing global financial crisis has enhanced the interest in the effective regulation and supervision of internationally active and large financial institutions, named as global systematically important financial institutions or banks (G-SIFIs or G-SIBs). The literature on G-SIBs has started...

In this paper we investigate the issues of identification and capital regulation of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). Both issues are fundamental for global financial stability. However, there are many open questions that remain on the political and academic agenda. We underline that...