Northern Rock: The anatomy of a crisis – the prudential lessons

Sonia Ondo-Ndong and Laurence Scialom

No 2008-23, EconomiX Working Papers from University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX

Abstract: This paper attempts to analyse the main characteristics of the Northern Rock crisis and the responses of the Bank of England as lender of last resort. On the basis of the diagnosis about the causes and the handling of this banking crisis we detect the shortcomings prevailing in the UK prudential device. We therefore try to draw the prudential lessons of this experience. As we cannot claim to present an exhaustive picture of the crisis’s implications from a prudential point of view, we chose to focus instead on the points with practical significance far beyond the UK’s case.

Keywords: bank bankruptcy; deposit insurance; liquidity regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G28 G32 G33 G38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2008
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