Financial Regulation in the European Union After the Crisis

Domenica Tropeano is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Università di Macerata, Italy.

Part 1

Chapter 1

Minsky’s institutional analysis of the development of the economy and how financial regulation fits in it.

System’s endogeneous dynamics versus institutions and interventions.

Financial innovation as bricolage.

Minsky on money manager capitalism, finance and thwarting systems.

Chapter 2

Recent proposals of change in financial regulation inspired by Minsky.

Is the central bank the only circuit breaker left ?

Conclusions

Chapter 3

Basel III: the revised capital requirements, the leverage ratio, and total loss absorbing capacity.

Introduction

The revised capital requirements. Just a change in the weights?

How the revision in capital requirements should work in practice.

Other macroprudential measures.

The Leverage Ratio

The definition of leverage ratio and how to calculate it.

Too much hope in this new tool?

Total loss absorbing capacity in the EU.

Conclusions

Chapter 4

Two additional regulatory metrics: the Liquidity Coverage Ratio and the Net Stable Funding Ratio.

The Liquidity Coverage Ratio.

How to calculate the numerator of the ratio.

How to calculate the denominator of the ratio.

Conclusions about the theoretical underpinnings of the ratio.

Eba’s studies on the application of the BCBS designed liquidity coverage ratio to the European Union banking system.

The Net Stable Funding Ratio.

How to calculate the net stable funding ratio.

The treatment of derivatives in the NSFR and the discussion with industry representatives.

What type of banking does the NSFR favor?

Conclusions

Chapter 5

Main consequences of the interaction between new regulatory rules (risk weighted capital requirements, leverage ratio, liquidity ratio, net stable funding ratio) and the new mandatory resolution regime for banks.

Introduction

The vanishing of the distinction between money, claim and security.

Repo markets and leverage.

Repo, securities lending and derivatives in the banking recovery and resolution directive.

Possible disruptions to the payments system during bank resolution procedures.

The failure to regulate the repo market in the EU.

Consequences of the interaction of regulatory, supervisory and bank resolution laws on the nature of the common currency: the euro as a changing contractual money.

Part 2

Chapter 6

Financial fragility in the European crisis: three episodes.

Introduction

Financial innovation in Europe after 2007: new and old derivatives

The CDS market and the fall in value of governments bonds during the European Financial Crisis

Dexia’s financial distress and its second bailout in 2011

Regulatory policy and the transmission of the crisis from core to peripheral countries’ banks.

Conclusions

Chapter 7

Deleveraging in European banking and financial stability 2010-13.

Deleveraging in European banks.

Changes in banks’ assets and liabilities 2010-13.

Changes in banks’ assets and liabilities in the period 2010-2011.

Changes in assets and liabilities of banks 2012-13.

Changes in regulation in the period 2010-13.

Long term refinancing by the ECB as a thwarting mechanism in the European crisis?

Conclusions

Chapter 8

Italy’s banking crisis

Introduction

The macroeconomics of the crisis

The microeconomics of the crisis

An historical excursus on Italian banks.

The 1993 Banking Act and the return to universal banking.

The return to universal banking: a Minskian reading.

Conclusions