Resolving Systemic Financial Crisis: Policies and Institutions

The authors analyze the role of institutions in resolving systemic banking crises for a broad sample of countries. Banking crises are fiscally costly, especially when policies like substantial liquidity support, explicit government guarantees on fi...

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Main Authors: Claessens, Constantijn A., Klingebiel, Daniela, Laeven, Luc
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/08/5104607/resolving-systemic-financial-crisis-policies-institutions
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spelling okr-10986-141492021-04-23T14:03:21Z Resolving Systemic Financial Crisis: Policies and Institutions Claessens, Constantijn A. Klingebiel, Daniela Laeven, Luc ACCOUNTING ADVERSE EFFECTS ASSET BUBBLES ASSET PRICES BAILOUT COSTS BALANCE SHEETS BANK CREDIT BANKING CRISIS BANKING SECTOR BANKING SYSTEM BANKING SYSTEMS BANKRUPTCY BLANKET DEPOSIT GUARANTEES CAPITAL FLOWS CENTRAL BANKS CLEARING SYSTEMS CONTAINMENT PHASE CREDIBILITY CREDIT BOOMS CREDITOR CURRENCY CURRENCY CRISES DEBT OVERHANG DEBT RELIEF DEPOSIT INSURANCE DEPOSITORS DEPOSITS EARNINGS ECONOMIC COSTS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OUTLOOK ECONOMIC RECOVERY EMERGING ECONOMIES EMERGING MARKETS EMPIRICAL ANALYSES EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EXTERNAL FINANCE FINANCIAL CRISIS FINANCIAL DISTRESS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING FINANCIAL SECTOR FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL SECTOR RESTRUCTURING FINANCIAL SYSTEM FINANCIAL SYSTEMS FISCAL COST FISCAL COSTS FOREIGN CURRENCY GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES INFLATION INSOLVENCY INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK INTEREST RATES INTERNATIONAL LIQUIDITY The authors analyze the role of institutions in resolving systemic banking crises for a broad sample of countries. Banking crises are fiscally costly, especially when policies like substantial liquidity support, explicit government guarantees on financial institutions liabilities, and forbearance from prudential regulations are used. Higher fiscal outlays do not, however, accelerate the recovery from a crisis. Better institutions less corruption, improved law and order, legal system, and bureaucracy do. The authors find these results to be relatively robust to estimation techniques, including controlling for the effects of a poor institutional environment on the likelihood of financial crisis and the size of fiscal costs. Their results suggest that countries should use strict policies to resolve a crisis and use the crisis as an opportunity to implement medium-term structural reforms, which will also help avoid future systemic crises. 2013-06-24T17:41:11Z 2013-06-24T17:41:11Z 2004-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/08/5104607/resolving-systemic-financial-crisis-policies-institutions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14149 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No.3377 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, D.C. Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic ACCOUNTING
ADVERSE EFFECTS
ASSET BUBBLES
ASSET PRICES
BAILOUT COSTS
BALANCE SHEETS
BANK CREDIT
BANKING CRISIS
BANKING SECTOR
BANKING SYSTEM
BANKING SYSTEMS
BANKRUPTCY
BLANKET DEPOSIT GUARANTEES
CAPITAL FLOWS
CENTRAL BANKS
CLEARING SYSTEMS
CONTAINMENT PHASE
CREDIBILITY
CREDIT BOOMS
CREDITOR
CURRENCY
CURRENCY CRISES
DEBT OVERHANG
DEBT RELIEF
DEPOSIT INSURANCE
DEPOSITORS
DEPOSITS
EARNINGS
ECONOMIC COSTS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
ECONOMIC RECOVERY
EMERGING ECONOMIES
EMERGING MARKETS
EMPIRICAL ANALYSES
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
EXTERNAL FINANCE
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FINANCIAL DISTRESS
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION
FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING
FINANCIAL SECTOR
FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
FINANCIAL SECTOR RESTRUCTURING
FINANCIAL SYSTEM
FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
FISCAL COST
FISCAL COSTS
FOREIGN CURRENCY
GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES
INFLATION
INSOLVENCY
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
INTEREST RATES
INTERNATIONAL LIQUIDITY
spellingShingle ACCOUNTING
ADVERSE EFFECTS
ASSET BUBBLES
ASSET PRICES
BAILOUT COSTS
BALANCE SHEETS
BANK CREDIT
BANKING CRISIS
BANKING SECTOR
BANKING SYSTEM
BANKING SYSTEMS
BANKRUPTCY
BLANKET DEPOSIT GUARANTEES
CAPITAL FLOWS
CENTRAL BANKS
CLEARING SYSTEMS
CONTAINMENT PHASE
CREDIBILITY
CREDIT BOOMS
CREDITOR
CURRENCY
CURRENCY CRISES
DEBT OVERHANG
DEBT RELIEF
DEPOSIT INSURANCE
DEPOSITORS
DEPOSITS
EARNINGS
ECONOMIC COSTS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
ECONOMIC RECOVERY
EMERGING ECONOMIES
EMERGING MARKETS
EMPIRICAL ANALYSES
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
EXTERNAL FINANCE
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FINANCIAL DISTRESS
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION
FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING
FINANCIAL SECTOR
FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
FINANCIAL SECTOR RESTRUCTURING
FINANCIAL SYSTEM
FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
FISCAL COST
FISCAL COSTS
FOREIGN CURRENCY
GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES
INFLATION
INSOLVENCY
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
INTEREST RATES
INTERNATIONAL LIQUIDITY
Claessens, Constantijn A.
Klingebiel, Daniela
Laeven, Luc
Resolving Systemic Financial Crisis: Policies and Institutions
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No.3377
description The authors analyze the role of institutions in resolving systemic banking crises for a broad sample of countries. Banking crises are fiscally costly, especially when policies like substantial liquidity support, explicit government guarantees on financial institutions liabilities, and forbearance from prudential regulations are used. Higher fiscal outlays do not, however, accelerate the recovery from a crisis. Better institutions less corruption, improved law and order, legal system, and bureaucracy do. The authors find these results to be relatively robust to estimation techniques, including controlling for the effects of a poor institutional environment on the likelihood of financial crisis and the size of fiscal costs. Their results suggest that countries should use strict policies to resolve a crisis and use the crisis as an opportunity to implement medium-term structural reforms, which will also help avoid future systemic crises.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author Claessens, Constantijn A.
Klingebiel, Daniela
Laeven, Luc
author_facet Claessens, Constantijn A.
Klingebiel, Daniela
Laeven, Luc
author_sort Claessens, Constantijn A.
title Resolving Systemic Financial Crisis: Policies and Institutions
title_short Resolving Systemic Financial Crisis: Policies and Institutions
title_full Resolving Systemic Financial Crisis: Policies and Institutions
title_fullStr Resolving Systemic Financial Crisis: Policies and Institutions
title_full_unstemmed Resolving Systemic Financial Crisis: Policies and Institutions
title_sort resolving systemic financial crisis: policies and institutions
publisher World Bank, Washington, D.C.
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/08/5104607/resolving-systemic-financial-crisis-policies-institutions
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14149
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