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The IMFS Interdisciplinary Study 2/2013 contains speeches of Michael Burda (Humboldt University ), Benoît Coeuré (European Central Bank), Stefan Gerlach (Bank of Ireland and former IMFS Professor), Patrick Honohan (Bank of Ireland), Sabine Lautenschläger (Deutsche Bundesbank), Athanasios Orphanides (MIT) and Helmut Siekmann as well as Volker Wieland.
This study contains articles based on speeches and presentations at the 14th CFS-IMFS Conference "The ECB and its Watchers" on June 15, 2012 by Mario Draghi, John Vickers, Peter Praet, Lucrezia Reichlin, Vitor Gaspar, Lucio Pench and Stefan Gerlach and a post-conference outlook by Helmut Siekmann and Volker Wieland.
Außerhalb Griechenlands herrscht die Ansicht vor, dass eine höhere Wettbewerbsfähigkeit gleichbedeutend ist mit Preissenkungen für Güter und Dienstleistungen. Angesichts der begrenzten Bereitschaft in Griechenland, Reformen umzusetzen, fordern die Gläubiger drastische Lohnkürzungen, um die Produktivität zu erhöhen und die öffentlichen Ausgaben zu senken. Doch mit einer Kürzungsrunde nach der anderen lässt sich Wettbewerbsfähigkeit nicht erreichen. Umfangreiche flächendeckende Lohnkürzungen reduzieren vielmehr die erwartete Produktivität, da sie die besten Arbeitnehmer vertreiben, dem Rest Anreize zur Produktivität nehmen und neue gute Leute fernhalten.
This note proposes a new set-up for the fund backing the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM). The proposed fund is a Multi-Tier Resolution Fund (MTRF), restricting the joint and several supranational liability to a limited range of losses, bounded by national liability at the upper and the lower end. The layers are, in ascending order: a national fund (first losses), a European fund (second losses), the national budget (third losses), the ESM (fourth losses, as a backup for sovereigns). The system works like a reinsurance scheme, providing clear limits to European-level joint liability, and therefore confining moral hazard. At the same time, it allows for some degree of risk sharing, which is important for financial stability if shocks to the financial system are exogenous (e.g., of a supranational macroeconomic nature). The text has four parts. Section A describes the operation of the Multi-Tier Resolution Fund, assuming the fund capital to be fully paid-in (“Steady State“). Section B deals with the build-up phase of the fund capital (“Build up“). Section C discusses how the proposal deals with the apparent incentive conflicts. The final Section D summarizes open questions which need further thought (“Open Questions“).
This policy letter provides an overview of the strengths, weaknesses, risks and opportunities of the upcoming comprehensive risk assessment, a euro area-wide evaluation of bank balance sheets and business models. If carried out properly, the 2014 comprehensive assessment will lead the euro area into a new era of banking supervision. Policy makers in euro area countries are now under severe pressure to define a credible backstop framework for banks. This framework, as the author argues, needs to be a broad, quasi-European system of mutually reinforcing backstops.
Sondierungsstudie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung: Die jüngste Finanzkrise und die darauf folgende Staatsschuldenkrise hat sowohl wirtschaftlich als auch gesellschaftlich tiefgreifende Spuren hinterlassen. Dabei wurden auch sehr deutliche Lücken in der Forschung offenbar. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, aufbauend auf dem aktuellen Forschungsstand weiteren Forschungsbedarf in den wesentlich mit Finanzkrisen verbundenen Bereichen aufzuzeigen. Es werden fünf Forschungsbereiche mit jeweiligen Unterthemen vorgeschlagen. Diese fünf Forschungsbereiche gehen unmittelbar aus der Struktur und den Mechanismen der Finanz- und Staatsschuldenkrise hervor. Dabei wird besonderes Augenmerk auf die wirtschafts- und regulierungspolitische Relevanz der Themen sowie dem Umstand getragen, dass die Beantwortung vieler der Fragen interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit erfordert.
Finanzkrisen sind inherent mit dem Bankenmodell verbunden. Aufgrund von Verbindungen der Banken untereinander können Probleme einzelner Institute auf andere Institute übertragen werden. Diese systemischen Risiken können das gesamte Finanzsystem destabilisieren. Das Finanzsystem nimmt durch die Kreditvergabe und Bereitstellung von Transaktionssystemen eine herausragende Stellung in einer Volkswirtschaft ein, wodurch stabilisierende Eingriffe der Politik notwendig werden können. Eingriffe zur Wiederherstellung von Stabilität können sehr kostspielig sein und, wie aktuell eindrucksvoll belegt, die stabilisierenden Staaten selbst destabilisieren. Die alternativen Eingriffe vorab betreffen neben der Geldpolitik vor allem regulatorische Eingriffe. Im besonderen sind die Corporate Governance von Finanzinstituten und die Informationsbereitstellung bzw. Transparenz innerhalb des Finanzsektors von Bedeutung. In den vergangen Jahren wuchs vor dem Hintergrund von Regulierung zudem ein paralleles Schattenbankensystems heran, das in seiner Bedeutung dem traditionellen Bankensystem nur unwesentlich nachsteht.
Zwar sind die groben Zusammenhänge und Auswirkungen in den einzelnen Bereichen bekannt, jedoch ist für ein tiefgreifendes Verständnis als Grundlage zur Vermeidung bzw. Eindämmung zukünftiger Krisen sowie zur Folgenabschätzung von Regulierung weitere Forschung unabdingbar.
Sovereign bond risk premiums
(2013)
Credit risk has become an important factor driving government bond returns. We therefore introduce an asset pricing model which exploits information contained in both forward interest rates and forward CDS spreads. Our empirical analysis covers euro-zone countries with German government bonds as credit risk-free assets. We construct a market factor from the first three principal components of the German forward curve as well as a common and a country-specific credit factor from the principal components of the forward CDS curves. We find that predictability of risk premiums of sovereign euro-zone bonds improves substantially if the market factor is augmented by a common and an orthogonal country-specific credit factor. While the common credit factor is significant for most countries in the sample, the country-specific factor is significant mainly for peripheral euro-zone countries. Finally, we find that during the current crisis period, market and credit risk premiums of government bonds are negative over long subintervals, a finding that we attribute to the presence of financial repression in euro-zone countries.
This paper takes a novel approach to estimating bankruptcy costs by inference from market prices of equity and put options using a dynamic structural model of capital structure. This approach avoids the selection bias of looking at firms in or near default and therefore permits theories of ex ante capital structure determination to be tested. We identify significant cross sectional variation in bankruptcy costs across industries and relate these to specific firm characteristics. We find that asset volatility and growth options have significant positive impacts, while tangibility and size have negative impacts. Our bankruptcy cost variable estimate significantly negatively impacts leverage ratios. This negative impact is in addition to that of other firm characteristics such as asset intangibility and asset volatility. The results provide strong support for the tradeoff theory of capital structure.
We study to what extent firms spread out their debt maturity dates across time, which we call "granularity of corporate debt." We consider the role of debt granularity using a simple model in which a firm's inability to roll over expiring debt causes inefficiencies, such as costly asset sales or underinvestment. Since multiple small asset sales are less costly than a single large one, firms may diversify debt rollovers across maturity dates. We construct granularity measures using data on corporate bond issuers for the 1991-2011 period and establish a number of novel findings. First, there is substantial variation in granularity in that many firms have either very concentrated or highly dispersed maturity structures. Second, our model's predictions are consistent with observed variation in granularity. Corporate debt maturities are more dispersed for larger and more mature firms, for firms with better investment opportunities, with higher leverage ratios, and with lower levels of current cash flows. We also show that during the recent financial crisis especially firms with valuable investment opportunities implemented more dispersed maturity structures. Finally, granularity plays an important role for bond issuances, because we document that newly issued corporate bond maturities complement pre-existing bond maturity profiles.