Financial Restructuring and Resolution of Banks

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Date 01.02.2019
Hour 10:3012:00
Speaker Denis GROMB, HEC Paris
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Category Conferences - Seminars

How do resolution frameworks affect the private restructuring of distressed banks? We model a distressed bank's shareholders and creditors negotiating a  restructuring given asymmetric information about asset quality and externalities onto the government. This yields negotiation delays used to signal asset  quality. we find that strict bail-in rules increase delays by worsening informational frictions and reducing bargaining surplus. We characterize optimal bail-in rules for the government. We then consider the government's possible involvement in negotiations. We find this can lead to shorter or longer delays. Notably, the  government may gin from committing not to partake in negotiations.