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In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a … particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a … outside the bank as depositors rushed to withdraw their deposits. There was always a fear that this could spark a systemic run …

This paper examines the negative externalities that may occur when a large bank fails, describes the nature of those … directed first at closing institutions promptly, reforming bankruptcy statutes to admit special procedures for handling bank …

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 …

The bail-in tool as implemented in the European bank resolution framework suffers from severe shortcomings. To some …-runnable long-term debt, even if investors are able to gauge the relevant risk of PSI in a bank’s failure correctly at the time of … the new regime. To prove this conclusion, this chapter looks in more detail at the regulatory objectives of the BRRD …

This paper distils three lessons for bank regulation from the experience of the 2009-12 euro-area financial crisis …. First, it highlights the key role that sovereign debt exposures of banks have played in the feedback loop between bank and …