In this paper we examine the relationship between the default risk of banks and sovereigns, i.e. the 'doom-loop'. Specifically we try to assess the effectiveness of the implementation of the new recovery and resolution framework. We use a panel with daily data on European banks and sovereigns...

Since 2008, enormous efforts have been made worldwide to draft rules to prevent a reoccurence of the devastating financial effects of that year. In the process, bank business has been laid open to intense public and government scrutiny, and regulation of banking has grown to spectacular...

Banks have fallen insolvent since they have come into existence. The ritual act of breaking a banker's table or banca, behind which he conducted his business, used to signify this banker's insolvency. In our times, it is different. Which laws should be enforced in the bank's insolvency, is the...

The EU bank recovery and resolution directive includes mechanisms for recovery (or “early intervention”) for groups. These are: group recovery plans, intra-group financial assistance and coordination of early intervention measures regarding groups.But do these group provisions ensure a...

Bank Recovery and Resolution' is a book that organises a highly complex legal system into patterns and action plans that can be applied in virtually any eventuality likely to arise in cases where bank business is of central significance. In light of the colossal efforts that have been made...