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After the destructive impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, many believe that pre-crisis financial market regulation did not take the "big picture" of the system suffciently into account and, subsequently, financial supervision mainly "missed the forest for the trees". As a result, the...
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linear causal relationships. Finally, the comments point out that bank resolution of systemically important institutions is … resolution (in the EI), for lack of fiscal backstops (in the EU), and for lack of political acceptance of bank resolution with …
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This paper investigates the impact of governance and regulation on systemic risk across a sample of banks from 10 Emerging CEE countries during 2005-2012. Overall, our results show that tight internal risk management mechanisms and shareholder-friendly supervisory boards are associated with...
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We set out a stylised framework for the policies enacted to address the risks posed by systemically important institutions (SIIs) and to counter the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) problem, examining conceptually how far supervisory and resolution policies are complementary or substitutable. The...
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drawing useful lessons for regulatory reform. We argue that an important contributor to positive bank performance was a solid …
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This paper proposes and evaluates several market-based measures for US and eurozone individual bank tail risk and … banking system risk. We apply statistical extreme value analysis to the tails of bank equity prices to estimate the likelihood … to global shocks ( extreme systematic risk). Moreover, the estimators presuppose that bank equity prices are heavy tailed …
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The current international financial crisis, which started in 2007 in the US and soon spread to the rest of the world, has revealed that the failure of an interconnected and complex financial institution, even though not necessarily large in terms of total assets, can threaten the stability of...
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The failure to spot emerging systemic risk and prevent the current global financial crisis warrants a reexamination of the approach taken so far to crisis prevention. The paper argues that financial crises can be prevented, as they build up over time due to policy mistakes and eventually erupt...
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This essay argues that at least some of the financial stability concerns associated with shadow banking can be addressed by an approach to financial regulation that imports its functional foundations more vigorously into the interpretation and implementation of existing rules. It shows that the...
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