In the aftermath of the global financial crisis the EU bank resolution regime went through fundamental changes that seek to preserve financial stability and ensure continuity of critical functions. The same cannot be said of insolvency rules applicable to non-financial enterprises. Unlike bank...

As part of the completion of the European Banking Union, the decision on the organization of institutional and deposit protection is still pending. The mere linking of these two objectives, which are by no means necessarily identical in terms of content, has recently led to heated controversy....

With the proposals of the United Kingdom's Independent Commission on Banking (now enacted in legislation), the “ring-fencing” of core banking functions and their legal and commercial insulation against the risks emanating from investment banking has attracted wide-spread attention in both...

Since July 2007 the world economy has experienced a severe financial crisis originating in the U.S. housing market. The crisis has subsequently spread to the financial sectors in European and Asian economies and led to a severe worldwide recession. The existing literature on financial crises...

Using a novel dataset on central bank interventions to financial institutions, we examine the impact of capital injection announcements on systemic risk for the banking sector in the U.S. and the euro area between 2008 and 2013. We propose a new measure of options-based systemic risk called...

This paper discusses the European Commission's proposal for a CCP Recovery and Resolution Regulation. In this respect, the article comments the consequences, risks, and attention points for central counterparties and their authorities. This paper focuses on the proposed rules surrounding CCP...

This paper revisits the relationship between liberalization and systemic banking crisis in light of a more comprehensive measure of financial liberalization and its interaction with various measures of banking governance and institutional quality. We estimate the probability of systemic banking...

This paper revisits the relationship between liberalization and systemic banking crisis in light of a more comprehensive measure of financial liberalization and its interaction with various measures of banking governance and institutional quality. We estimate the probability of systemic banking...

In this paper, we examine the impact of adopting macroprudential policies on bank risk taking and systemic risk. Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) design and a sample of 3,342 banks from 77 countries over the period 1997-2016, we find that macroprudential policy instruments mitigate bank...

Since July 2007 the world economy has experienced a severe financial crisis originating in the U.S. housing market. The crisis has subsequently spread to the financial sectors in European and Asian economies and led to a severe worldwide recession. The existing literature on financial crises...