Can Creditor Bail-in Trigger Contagion? The Experience of an Emerging Market
Roy Havemann
Review of Finance, 2019, vol. 23, issue 6, 1155-1180
Abstract:
The successful bail-in of creditors in African Bank, a small South African monoline lender, provides an opportunity to evaluate the intended and unintended consequences of new resolution tools. Using a dataset that matches quarterly, daily, and financial-instrument level data, I show that the bail-in led to money-market funds “breaking the buck”, triggering significant redemptions and some financial contagion. To limit potential systemic effects, the authorities used complementary interventions, including imposing discretionary liquidity restrictions on mutual funds and market-making facilities for affected financial instruments. This supported a sustainable restructuring of the bank and reduced financial spillovers. The lesson is that future interventions using these new resolution tools should take into account the potential unintended systemic implications, particularly in smaller jurisdictions where there is a high degree of interconnectedness between bank and nonbank financial institutions.
Keywords: Money-market fund; Bail-in; Co-co bonds; Bank resolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G23 G38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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