Im Juli dieses Jahres stellte die Europäische Kommission die Pläne zu einem Einheitlichen Abwicklungsmechanismus (Singe Resolution Mechanism, SRM) als dritte Säule der Bankenunion vor. Hartmut Koschyk, Bundesministerium der Finanzen, schlägt vor, anstelle eines zentralen europäischen...

In der Debatte über die Zukunft der Eurozone wird auch das Konzept der Bankenunion diskutiert. Hans-Peter Burghof, Universität Hohenheim, sieht unter den gegenwärtigen Bedingungen die Gefahr einer europäischen Bankenunion, in der das Vermögen einiger Länder des Währungsraumes ohne...

Nach dem Ausbruch der internationalen Finanzkrise wird hier eine erste Bilanz für den deutschen Bankensektor gezogen. Dabei zeigt sich: Es bestehen weiterhin erhebliche Risiken. Die systemische Relevanz einzelner Banken ist sogar noch gestiegen. Wesentlich für die Zukunftsfähigkeit des...

This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets and the extent of interbank lending may underestimate the likelihood of contagion because they do not incorporate the fact that banks have a common regulator. In our model, the...

During the last decade or so a number of banking crises has occurred in both industrial and developing countries. Bank unsoundness is the focus of deep concerns for its possible interactions with macroeconomic instability. The potential size and severity of sovereign debt crises in integrated...

The European Commission's approach to the supervision and restructuring of the EU banking system has numerous shortcomings. As an alternative, this article proposes a European Resolution Authority and a European Restructuring Fund for systemically important banks and the implementation of a levy...

In this paper, we investigate the claim that German banks are special compared to banks in other industrialised economies. We show that banks are of particular importance to the German economy?as financial intermediary, as lender to the corporate sector, and as part of the corporate governance...

There are, at least, seven aspects relating to financial regulation where the recent, and still current, financial turmoil has thrown up issues for discussion. These include: 1. The scale and scope of deposit insurance; 2. Bank insolvency regimes, also known as prompt corrective action'; 3. Money...