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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
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This paper develops a formula to numerically estimate the unsubsidized, fair-market value of the toxic assets purchased with Federal Reserve loans. It finds that subsidy rates on these loans were on average 33.9 percent at origination. In contrast, by the 3rd quarter of the 2010, there was on...
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On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.
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anticipation of this bailout undermines a bank's private incentive to impose a bail-in. In the resulting equilibrium, bail-ins are …We study the interaction between a government's bailout policy and banks' willingness to impose losses on (or \bail in …
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In this paper, I suggest that the regulation of the financial system, especially if the aim is to prevent financial crises, should be focused on dealing with the consequences of the crises, not on trying to avoid their causes, although it may seem counterintuitive at first sight. Contrary to the...
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This paper tests whether poorly capitalized banks with troubled loan books are more likely to miss their bailout … non-cumulative preferred stock are also more likely to be TARP deadbeats. In addition, banks that missed a bailout … dividend in the prior quarter are significantly more likely to miss the next bailout dividend …
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Adding contingently convertible debt securities, cocos, in an amount equal to about 3% of tangible assets to the financing mix of financial institutions is a promising reform idea. It would also be inexpensive for these institutions to issue cocos and thus to be prepared to recapitalize and to...
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system; any preset resolution system will be abandoned for a bailout if it would produce socially unacceptable loss … done ad hoc through Congress or should bailout authority be institutionalized in an agency? And second, should creditors of … bailed out firms be forced to accept less than full payment (or take a “haircut”) as part of the bailout? Ensuring …
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having a central bank or a separate agency responsible for microprudential banking supervision, the advantages of having this … a single supervisor, be it the central bank or an agency, has in fact lower costs than capturing two. Nevertheless …
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