Following the demise of Lehman Brothers, the debate on regulatory reform has been misled into concluding that large financial institutions must be broken up and their risk-taking activities limited by law, as called for by the ‘Volcker rule'. This report of a joint CEPS-Assonime Task Force...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether and how “living wills” and public disclosure of such resolution plans contribute to market discipline and the effective resolution of too big and too complex to fail banks. Design/methodology/approach – The disorderly collapse of...

The establishment of the banking union was a crucial step for European integration and for the Economic and Monetary Union. Together with stronger capital and liquidity requirements under the European single rulebook, the introduction of the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the Single Resolution...

One important conclusion of Robert Shiller's influential 2015 book, Irrational Exuberance, is that bubbles are random exogenous phenomena that cannot be foreseen and do not depend on macroeconomic policies. This CEPR Policy Insight throws light on the root causes of speculative fevers in asset...