Concerns about excessive variability in bank risk weights have prompted their review byregulators. This paper provides prima facie evidence on the extent of risk weightheterogeneity across broad asset classes and by country of counterparty for major banks inthe European Union using internal...

Concerns about excessive variability in bank risk weights have prompted their review by regulators. This paper provides prima facie evidence on the extent of risk weight heterogeneity across broad asset classes and by country of counterparty for major banks in the European Union using internal...

The recent financial crisis highlights the importance of both regulatory and market discipline. Government reactions to the crisis included expanding deposit insurance coverage and rescuing troubled institutions, including some institutions that might not otherwise be considered too important to...

Bank bailouts are not ''one-shot'' events as commonly portrayed, but dynamic processes in which series of steps occur over time lasting for months or years. Regulators first ''catch'' financially-distressed banks and provide financial assistance. At this time, regulators also ''restrict'' banks'...