Bank Recapitalisation: Bail-out or Bail-in

Author Sashi Sivramkrishna Abstract Using sectoral T-accounts, this paper analyzes the implications of bank bail-outs and bank bail-ins. Contrary to popular opinion, bank bail-outs do not utilize taxpayers’ money. Moreover, bank bail-outs funded through recapitalization bonds or deficit financing and bail-ins have similar net effects on sectoral balance sheets. There are, however, questions of moral Read More …

Potential GDP Growth for China and India: What Growth Rate is Sustainable

Author Paul Kutasovic New York Institute Of Technology Abstract In this manuscript, we determine the sources of historic growth for the economies of India and China. Next, we estimate potential GDP growth for each country. The study concludes that India is more favorably positioned for long-term growth than China with a higher steady state growth Read More …

A Survey of Systemic Risk Analytics

Author Dimitrios Bisias, Mark Flood, Andrew W. Lo Stavros Valavanis Abstract We provide a survey of 31 quantitative measures of systemic risk in the economics and finance literature, chosen to span key themes and issues in systemic risk measurement and management. We motivate these measures from the supervisory, research, and data perspectives in the main Read More …