Systemic Risk Regulation in Comparative Perspective

The Role of Regulation in Banking: Liquidity Risk Perspective

The liquidity crisis in 2008 sparked interest in the role of regulation that could promote resilience and stability in the banking system. While the Public Interest theory suggests that legal policies could discipline banking activities, the Private Interest theory predicts otherwise, which impairs banking performance. The conflicting theories warrant comprehensive research, especially for Isla...

Systemic Transformation: Poland in Comparative Perspective

Regulation of Systemic Liquidity Risk

The paper provides a baseline model for regulatory analysis of systemic liquidity shocks. We show that banks may have an incentive to invest excessively in illiquid long term projects. In the prevailing mixed strategy equilibrium the allocation is inferior from the investor’s point of view since some banks free-ride on the liquidity provision as a result of limited liability. The paper compares...

Systemic Risk: Changing the Regulatory Perspective

The article puts forward the view that the regulatory perspective on systemic risk should be changed drastically. The sub-prime crisis has indeed revealed many loopholes in the supervisory/regulatory framework for banks—in particular, the inability to deal with the too-big-to-fail syndrome and also the lack of resiliency of interbank and money markets. To a large extent, the contagion phenomena...

Capital, Systemic Risk, Insurance Prices and Regulation

We develop a uni ed equilibrium model of competitive insurance markets that incorporates the demand and supply of insurance as well as insurers' asset and liability risks. Insurers' assets may be exposed to both idiosyncratic and systemic shocks. We obtain new insights into the relationship between insurance premia and insurers' internal capital that potentially reconcile the con icting predict...