Evaluating Competing Financial Stability Policies
Consider two different government approaches to managing large financial institutions.
Approach 1: The government establishes a credible and unwavering policy that it will not use public funds to rescue failing institutions. Instead, it focuses on creating robust legal frameworks for their orderly resolution and closure.
Approach 2: The government imposes extremely strict regulations, such as very high capital reserve requirements and frequent stress tests, but it implicitly signals that it might intervene to rescue a failing institution if its collapse could trigger a systemic crisis.
Evaluate which of these two approaches is more effective at aligning the risk-taking incentives of a bank's owners with the financial interests of the general public. Justify your conclusion by analyzing the behavioral incentives each approach creates for the banks.
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