Bank resolution and public backstop in an asymmetric banking union

Anatoli Segura and Sergio Vicente

No 83, ESRB Working Paper Series from European Systemic Risk Board

Abstract: This paper characterizes the optimal banking union with endogenous participation in a two-country economy in which domestic bank failures may be contemporaneous to sovereign crises, giving rise to risk-sharing motives to mutualize the funding of bail-outs. Raising public funds to conduct a bail-out entails the deadweight loss of distortionary taxation. Bank bail-ins create disruption costs in the economy. When country asymmetry is large, resolution policies exhibit reduced contributions to the public backstop and forbearance in early bank intervention in the fiscally stronger country, facilitating bail-outs in this country. JEL Classification: G01, G21, G28

Keywords: bail-in; bailout; banking union; mechanism design; public backstop (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-08
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