Many economists have argued that it is necessary to reorganize big banks that require sustained subsidies or are close to insolvency. By wiping out the shareholders and giving haircuts to bondholders, the resulting reorganized banks will be financially sound and capable of leading the country...

The policy of too big to fail arose in part from pressures created by the lack of satisfactory bankruptcy arrangements for banks. It prevented market forces from closing banks and protected all uninsured depositors of large banks from loss in the event of failure. The consequent risk-taking...

Big is bad. At least that has become the view of many individuals about big banks ever since the financial crisis of 2007-2009. The fear is that if a big bank gets into trouble, its problems will infect other financial institutions and threaten the entire economy. Historically, however, big...

Financial reform must not ignore the interests of small stakeholders – who must be regarded as too small to be counted. Making equity an explicit objective is delicate: it needs to be calibrated such that the vulnerable are not exposed to further risks. Policies outside the realm of financial...

In the 2007-2009 financial crisis, one major problem was that many distressed financial institutions were 'Too Big To Fail' (TBTF), not only because of their size, but more due to their business complexity and systematic interconnections. Many reforms have since been adopted to address this...

링크를 클릭하시면, 이 보고서의 한국어 버전을 보실 수 있습니다. 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2919126' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2919126Designed to resolve failed banks via loss-sharing by shareholders and creditors, bail-ins were introduced to substitute bailouts, which are...

“Too big to fail” – or “TBTF” – is a popular metaphor for a core dysfunction of today's financial system: the recurrent pattern of government bailouts of large, systemically important financial institutions. The financial crisis of 2008 made TBTF a household term, a powerful...

Many have wrestled with too big to fail firms, with the attention predominantly focused on banks, especially the so-called systemically important ones, i.e. SIFI's (“Systematically Important Financial Institutions”). In this Article we look at too big to fail firms. We focus on cases of...

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the problem of financial institutions being "too big to fail," or TBTF, has been front and center in the public debate over the reform and regulation of the financial industry. Commentators across the political spectrum decried bailouts of the biggest Wall Street...