The post crisis regulatory framework has fostered the development of the market for contingent convertible bonds (CoCos). These instruments allow for loss-absorption as a going concern but their critics warn about their potential destabilizing effects in stress situations. We analyse the...

The post-crisis regulatory framework has fostered the development of the contingent convertible bonds (CoCos) market. These instruments permit banks to absorb losses as a going concern but their critics warn that they could have potentially destabilizing effects in stress situations. We analyse...