Thomas Huertas vom Institue for Law and Finance an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt wirft in dem Workingpaper "Containment and Cure:Some Perspectives on the Current Crisis" hauptsächlich zwei Fragen auf: Die Frage nach der Ursache der Weltwirtschaftskrise und wie man eine solche in Zukunft...

This paper sets out the criteria that boards and supervisors should use to determine whether banks are governing risk correctly. First, boards have to set an overall risk target consistent with the overall return target. Second, the bank’s business model has to set a risk capacity and risk...

Banks cannot be made fail-safe. But they can be made safe to fail, so that the failure of a bank need not disrupt the economy at large nor pose cost to the taxpayer. In other words, banks can be made resolvable, and “too big to fail” can come to an end. To do so, the authorities, banks and...

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From the start of 2016, new rules for bank resolution are in place – as spelled out in the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) – across the EU, and a new authority (the Single Resolution Board, or SRB) is fully operational for resolving all banks in the eurozone.The implementation...

Stress tests have two purposes. From a micro-prudential perspective, they aim to assure that banks have enough capital now to withstand the losses they might incur in the future, if the macro-economic environment were to become markedly more adverse. From a macro-economic perspective, stress...