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The Asset Quality Review and Capital Needs: Why re-capitalise banks with public money?

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It is generally assumed that any capital needs discovered by the Asset Quality Review the ECB is scheduled to finish by the end of 2014 should be filled by public funding (= fiscal backstop). This assumption is wrong, however. Banks that do not have enough capital should be asked to obtain it from the market; or be restructured using the procedures and rules recently agreed. The Directorate-General for Competition at the European Commission should be particularly vigilant to ensure that no further state aid flows to an already oversized European banking system. The case for a public backstop was strong when the entire euro area banking system was under stress, but this is no longer the case. Banks with a viable business model can find capital; those without should be closed because any public-sector re-capitalisation would likely mean throwing good money after bad.

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  • Gros, Daniel, 2013. "The Asset Quality Review and Capital Needs: Why re-capitalise banks with public money?," CEPS Papers 8775, Centre for European Policy Studies.
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    1. Diego Valiante, 2012. "Last Call for a Banking Union in the Euro Area," Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 58(2), pages 153-170.
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    1. Gros, Daniel, 2013. "The Bank Resolution Compromise: Incomplete, but workable?," CEPS Papers 8776, Centre for European Policy Studies.

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