Systemic Financial Crises
Containment and Resolution

This book analyzes government policies to contain and resolve systemic financial crises.

Patrick Honohan (Edited by), Luc Laeven (Edited by)

9781107407206, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 September 2012

400 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.53 kg

"A valuable analysis of what has been learned about containing and resolving systemic financial crises." - Morris Goldstein, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC

Faced with a systemic financial sector crisis, policymakers need to make difficult choices under pressure. Based on the experience of many countries in recent years, few have been able to achieve a speedy, lasting and low-cost resolution. This volume considers the strengths and weaknesses of the various policy options, covering both microeconomic (including recapitalization of banks, bank closures, subsidies for distressed borrowers, capital adequacy rules and corporate governance and bankruptcy law requirements) and macroeconomic (including monetary and fiscal policy) dimensions. The contributors explore the important but little understood trade-offs that are involved, such as between policies which take effect quickly, those which minimize long-term fiscal and economic costs, and those which create favorable incentives for future stability. Successfully implementing crisis management and crisis resolution policy required attention to detail and a good flow of information.

Foreword Gerard Caprio
Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction and overview Patrick Honohan and Luc Laeven
Part II. Containment and Resolution: 2. Financial crisis policies and resolution mechanisms: a taxonomy from cross-country experience Charles Calomiris, Daniela Klingebiel and Luc Laeven
3. Pitfalls in managing closures of financial institutions Carl-Johan Lindgren
4. Bank recapitalization: fiscal, monetary and incentive implications Patrick Honohan
Part III. Models and Econometric Evidence: 5. Policies for banking crises: a theoretical framework Rafael Repullo
6. Crisis resolution, policies, and institutions: empirical evidence Stijn Claessens, Daniela Klingebiel and Luc Laeven
Part IV. Structural Reforms: 7. Financial crises and the presence of foreign banks Adrian Tschoegl
8. Maximizing the value of distressed assets: bankruptcy law and the efficient reorganization of firms David Smith and Per Strömberg
9. Crisis resolution and credit allocation: the case of Japan Joe Peek and Eric Rosengren.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP], Microeconomics [KCC], Economics [KC]