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Designing arrangements for cross-border financial crisis
management
Pedro Gustavo TeixeiraWashington D.C., June 8, 2006
The views expressed do not necessarily correspond to those of the European Central Bank
Contents
1. Pressure points for cross-border financial crisis management
2. Designing cooperation agreements
3. Designing simulation exercises
4. Challenges and policy suggestions
1. Pressure points for cross-border financial crisis management
Definition of financial crisis management arrangements
• Policy tools and procedures for limiting damages and spillovers when:– A financial institution (or more) is unable to
meet its obligations due to liquidity / solvency problems
– The financial systems faces severe and binding liquidity constraints
– Market infrastructures are hindered by operational problems or other disturbances
Global financial stability architecture• Domestic and segmented financial
stability functions– Central banks, supervisors, deposit insurance,
treasuries
• International standards – Home-country control/ mutual recognition
• Cooperation structures – Basel Committee, FSF, EU committees
Pressure points for dealing with cross-border spillovers
• Communication and information-sharing– if it is inefficient, decision-making may be sub-optimal
• Coordination of decision-making– division between home/host responsibilities may be challenged
• Conflict of interests of each authority– national mandates vs cross-border externalities
• Complexity of constellations of authorities for– Detecting crisis events– Sharing local knowledge– Assessing cross-border systemic risk
2. Designing cooperation agreements
European experience• 2003 MoU between EU banking supervisors
and central banks (51 authorities)
• 2005 MoU between EU banking supervisors, central banks and treasuries (76 authorities)
Aiming at:• Preserving the stability of the financial system of
individual Member States and of the EU as whole• Facilitating detection and assessment of systemic
risk at cross-border level• Facilitating coordination of decisions between
authorities in a systemic crisis with spillovers in several countries
1st component: Information-sharing provisions• Who receives, pools/ disseminates
information?– Role of home-/host-country authorities, central
banks/supervisors
• What information should be shared?– General information on the crisis (structure of the
financial institution(s), authorities involved, urgency)– Information on banks (capital and liquidity positions,
exposures to different risks)– Information on systemic risk (counterparties, markets
and market infrastructures that may be affected)
• How does information flow cross-border?– Special channels, confidentiality safeguards
2nd component: Provisions on coordination of decision-making
• Clarifying responsibilities for crisis management– home-country supervisors vs. host-country central banks– responsibility for banking groups– overall crisis manager (s)
• Ensuring prior notification or consultation among authorities of policy measures– compatibility with national laws– without prejudice to swift decision-making
• Coordination of public statements• Risk-sharing (potential costs) between
countries
3rd component: Provisions for managing conflict of interests• Mismatch between national mandates and need to
consider cross-border externalities of the crisis– Risks and pay-offs not evident– Social cost at the cross-border level potentially greater
than domestic, but … accountability is domestic
• Conflicts of interest cannot be removed but managed / highlighted through mechanisms such as– pooling of information – joint assessments – Other procedures for consideration of systemic impact
at the cross-border level
Design challenges• Drafting
– risk of general provisions and exceptions– identifying possible institutional and legal constraints in
advance
• Moral hazard– the existence of ex ante arrangements may give the
perception of public intervention– transparency of arrangements (also in line with IMF Code on
transparency of monetary and financial policies)
• Infrastructure for communication– contact lists, internet site, teleconference facilities
• Lack of practice/ memory (dormant periods)– As with any tool, authorities need to become familiar with
using it through regular financial crisis simulation exercises
3. Designing financial crisis simulation exercises
European experience• EU-wide simulation exercise 2003 with
banking supervisors and central banks
• EU-wide simulation exercise 2006 with banking supervisors, central banks and treasuries
• ECB/ Eurosystem stress-testing exercises
• Regional simulation exercises in the Nordic countries
• Domestic exercises between authorities
Generic features• Neutrality principle - exercises not designed to
– test validity of institutional arrangements– highlight vulnerabilities in financial systems (systems are
stylized) – test individual authorities (“Laboratory-environment”)
• Open in terms of the resolution of the crisis– no “right answer” against which participants could be judged
• Diverse propagation channels – institutions, markets, market infrastructures – increase the potential for spillovers– uncertainty on whether shock is idiosyncratic or systemic
• Incentives-framework– to highlight conflicts of interest, participants are subject to
different domestic and cross-border incentives for considering policy actions
• High-speed developing crisis– to simulate time pressure and constrain cooperation
Design of a simulation exercise: stages of crisis management
National level
Cross-borderlevel
Triggering event
How are propagation channels identified,
information collected, and systemic risk assessed?
How is a crisis detected and identified?
How is decision-making processed, what conflicts emerge, and is it coordinated with other authorities?
Contagion to markets,
institutions, infrastructures
Policy tools
LogisticsDistribution of materials
(e.g. Website)
Flow of communication between the participants through paper, email and/or teleconference.
Participant
Authority A
Participant
Authority C
Participant
Authority B
Participant
Authority E
Participant
Authority D
Participant
Authority F
Moderators
“Actors” representing
external entities
Potential findings
• Insights into real-life financial crises in terms of – Time pressure– Imperfect information– Complexity of analysis of cross-border systemic implications – Different responsibilities and incentives of home/host-authorities – Different incentives for supervisors, central banks, treasuries
• Path-dependence in crisis management– Different modes of cooperation and information-sharing in the
stages of the crisis (domestic/cross-border) affects the assessment of system risk, which in turn affects ultimately policy choices
• Exercises not so realistic regarding– Participants’ “pre-disposition” to play the exercise– Greater scope for coordination issues in real crises
Usefulness of simulation exercises• Planning phase:
– better understanding of the transmission channels for shocks to the financial system
• Running of the exercise:– better understanding of information flows and
decision-making processes
• Evaluation phase:– identifying potential pressure points in arrangements– enhancing crisis management arrangements
4. Challenges and policy suggestions
Challenges to cross-border financial crisis management
• Institutional– Clear/ transparent/ credible allocation of
responsibilities in crisis situations– Coordination and alignment of policy decisions
• Analytical– Cross-border/-sectoral/-functional sharing and
processing of information– Assessment of cross-border systemic risk
Value-added of ex ante arrangements: mitigating potential coordination failures
• Cooperation agreements:– Signaling the authorities’ commitment to cooperation– Clarifying responsibilities and roles – Setting information-sharing procedures– Setting-up a crisis management infrastructure
• Simulation exercises:– Understanding the workability of financial stability
arrangements in a crisis with cross-border ramifications – Testing the efficiency of information flows– Practicing the assessment of cross-border systemic
threats– Testing the possibilities for a (un) coordinated policy
response to a crisis
Policy suggestions
• The pressure points for cross-border crisis management may lead to inefficient or costly outcomes if tackled in a disorganised manner
• Cross-border arrangements should not aim at resolving such pressure points, but instead providing authorities with a procedural structure for tackling them
• In addition to cooperation agreements and simulation exercises, other arrangements may include:– Standards on best practices– Development of operational networks between authorities– Contingency planning
Thank you!