This paper provides evidence on how announcements about the new European regulation on bank resolution impacted credit default swaps and equity values of banks. Using an event study methodology, abnormally high CDS spreads are observed during the provisional SRM agreement on 20 March 2014, the...

This is a chapter for a forthcoming volume Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press 2014) (eds. Eilís Ferran, Niamh Moloney, and Jennifer Payne). It provides an overview of EU financial regulation from the first banking directive up until its most recent developments in...

Prior to the financial crisis, prudential regulation in the EU was implemented non-uniformly across countries, as options and discretions allowed national authorities to apply a more favorable regulatory treatment. We exploit the national implementation of the CRD and derive a country measure of...

On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...

We study the political economy of bank capital regulation from a positive and normative perspective. In a general equilibrium setting, capital requirements and lobbying contributions are determined as the outcome of bargaining between banks and politicians. We show that bankers and politicians...

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the power of the ECB to impose administrative penalties as a supervisory authority within the context of the ‘Single Supervisory Mechanism', which is a major building block of the European Banking Union. It is structured in three (3) sections....

We analyse the cross-border propagation of prudential regulation in the euro area. Using the Prudential Instruments Database (Cerutti et al., 2017b) and a unique confidential database on balance sheets items of euro-area financial institutions we estimate panel models for 248 banks from 16...

Using the Prudential Instruments Database (Cerutti et al., 2017b) and a unique confidential database on balance sheet items of euro area financial institutions, we analyse cross-border spillovers from prudential regulation for 248 banks from 16 euro-area countries over the period...