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Making banks resolvable is a key component of the regulatory reform programme enacted in response to the crisis. A resolvable bank is one that is “safe to fail”: it can fail and be resolved without cost to the taxpayer and without significant disruption to the financial markets or the...

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On November 20, 2006 the FMG organised a conference on 'Prompt Corrective Action & Cross-Borders Supervisory Issues in Europe'. This conference was the fourth and final in a series of events in the field of Regulation and Financial Stability that have been organised with the support of the...

 

In this paper I shall take the causes, developments and economic consequences of the financial dislocations of the last six months as given and generally understood, having already written extensively on this subject, in a more academic vein in the Journal of International Economics and Economic...

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Mervyn King is the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and a co-founder of the LSE Financial Markets Group. On Wednesday 29 October 1997 he gave a public lecture at the LSE to mark the 10th anniversary of the Financial Markets Group and the 5th annivesay of the Bank of England Inflation...

European Monetary Union (EMU) has been good for Europe. Two years after it started, the economy of Euroland is in better shape with economic growth at 3.5 percent in 2000, the highest in over a decade, unemployment down, and price stability assured. However, contrary to previous expectations,...