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This paper argues that in the European Union (EU) deposit insurance funds are too difficult to use in bank resolution and too easy to use outside resolution. The paper proposes reforms in three areas for the effective management of bank failures of small and medium-sized banks in the European...
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Policymakers across countries have been seeking to strengthen the institutional framework to control fiscal costs and feedback effects to the real economy generated by bank failures. On a cross-section of countries, we find evidence that suggests that bank supervisors' intervention in bank...
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entities' probabilities of default, which in this case are estimated using market-based data. Hence, SE losses capture the …
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countries based on publicly available information. We use aggregate official data to validate this new dataset and estimate the … support they provided during the crisis. Public holdings were divested faster in better capitalized, more profitable, and more …
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Financial sector reform in the Baltic countries is reviewed in light of the banking crises that emerged during the reform period. It is argued that the crises had their roots in the structural deficiencies specific to planned economies and the financial environment that developed before and...
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limited history of crisis episodes, when crises bring unanticipated shocks where past tail events offer little guidance and … that can be made to capture country-specific institutional features. The model uses bank portfolio data broken down by risk …
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More than a century later, the Banca Romana crisis still provides useful insights on the challenges of preserving … financial stability. This paper reviews the case and discusses implications that can be relevant today. The crisis was spurred …, failed to take action when needed and concealed critical information from the public. When the crisis erupted, its resolution …
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Losses may accrue to depositors at insolvent banks both at and after the time of official resolution. Losses at resolution occur because of poor closure rules and regulatory forbearance. Losses after resolution occur if depositors'' access to their claims is delayed or ""frozen."" While the...
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crises. Significant discrepancies in these features suggest the absence of analytical consensus. The data allow an … examination of the relation between perceived crisis length, as an index of delay in taking actions to resolve a crisis, and … crisis costs. Cross-sectional evidence does not show that the length of a crisis is a significant contributor to its …
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systemic crisis to preserve some portion of a widely insolvent banking sector …
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