Honohan, PatrickKlingebiel, Daniela2014-08-272014-08-272000-09https://hdl.handle.net/10986/19787In recent decades, a majority of countries have experienced a systemic banking crisis requiring a major-and expensive-overhaul of their banking system. Not only do banking crises hit the budget with outlays that must be absorbed by higher taxes (or spending cuts), but they are costly in terms of forgone economic output. Many different policy recommendations have been made for limiting the cost of crises, but there has been little systematic effort to see which recommendations work in practice. The authors try to quantify the extent to which fiscal outlays incurred in resolving banking distress can be attributed to crisis management measures of a particular kind adopted by the government in the early years of the crisis. They find evidence that certain crisis management strategies appear to add greatly to fiscal costs: unlimited deposit guarantees, open-ended liquidity support, repeated recapitalization, debtor bail-outs, and regulatory forbearance. Their findings clearly tilt the balance in favor of a strict rather than an accommodating approach to crisis resolution. At the very least, regulatory authorities who choose an accommodating or gradualist approach to an emerging crisis must be sure they have some other way to control risk-taking.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOASSET MANAGEMENTASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANIESBALANCE SHEETSBANK CLOSURESBANK DEPOSITSBANK FAILUREBANK FAILURESBANK INSOLVENCYBANK MANAGEMENTBANK REGULATIONBANK STRUCTUREBANKING CRISESBANKING CRISISBANKING DISTRESSBANKING SYSTEMBANKING SYSTEM DISTRESSBANKING SYSTEMSBANKSBORROWINGCAPITAL BASECENTRAL BANKCENTRAL BANKSCENTRALIZATIONCONSOLIDATIONCONTAINMENT PHASECORRUPTIONCROSS COUNTRY EXPERIENCEDEPOSIT GUARANTEESDEPOSITORSDEPOSITSDEREGULATIONECONOMETRIC ANALYSISECONOMIC GROWTHEXOGENOUS VARIABLESEXPECTED VALUEFINANCIAL CRISESFINANCIAL CRISISFINANCIAL INSTITUTIONFINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSFINANCIAL SECTORFINANCIAL SYSTEMFINANCIAL SYSTEMSFISCALFISCAL COSTSFISCAL PRESSURESFUNCTIONAL FORMSGAMBLINGGDPGNPGOVERNMENT AGENCYGOVERNMENT GUARANTEESGOVERNMENT OWNERSHIPINDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIESINFLATIONINSOLVENTINSOLVENT BANKSINTEREST RATESINVESTMENT BANKINGLAWSLIQUIDATIONLIQUIDITYLOAN CLASSIFICATIONMACRO FACTORSMACROECONOMIC CONDITIONSMACROECONOMIC SHOCKSMARKET VALUEMATURITY VALUEMORAL HAZARDNATIONALIZATIONPREDICTIONSPRUDENTIAL REGULATIONSPRUDENTIAL REQUIREMENTSPUBLIC DEBTPUBLIC DEBT RELIEFREAL INTEREST RATEREAL SECTORRECAPITALIZATIONRECESSIONREGULATORY FORBEARANCEREGULATORY POLICIESREGULATORY POLICYREGULATORY REGIMEREHABILITATIONRISK SHARINGSAVINGSSECURITIESSECURITIES TRADINGSHAREHOLDERSSTABILIZATIONSYSTEMIC BANKING CRISESTAXATIONTOTAL COSTSTRADING10.1596/1813-9450-2441