Bail-Ins and Bail-Outs: Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability

52 Pages Posted: 14 Apr 2017 Last revised: 2 Oct 2019

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Benjamin Bernard

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics

Agostino Capponi

Columbia University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: October 1, 2019

Abstract

This paper endogenizes intervention in financial crises as the strategic negotiation between a regulator and creditors of distressed banks. Incentives for banks to contribute to a voluntary bail-in arise from their exposure to credit and price-mediated contagion. In equilibrium, a bail-in is possible only if the regulator's threat to not bail out insolvent banks is credible. Contrary to models without intervention or government bailouts only, sparse networks are beneficial in our model for two main reasons: they improve the credibility of the regulator's no-bailout threat for large shocks and they reduce free-riding incentives among bail-in contributors when the threat is credible.

Keywords: Systemic Risk, Bail-Ins, Bail-Outs, Credibility, Financial Stability

JEL Classification: G01, D85, L14

Suggested Citation

Bernard, Benjamin and Capponi, Agostino and Stiglitz, Joseph E., Bail-Ins and Bail-Outs: Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability (October 1, 2019). Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-45, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2951448 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2951448

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