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Possible Unintended Consequences of Basel III and Solvency II

August 1, 2011

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Possible Unintended Consequences of Basel III and Solvency II, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 25, 2024
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Summary

In today's financial system, complex financial institutions are connected through an opaque network of financial exposures. These connections contribute to financial deepening and greater savings allocation efficiency, but are also unstable channels of contagion. Basel III and Solvency II should improve the stability of these connections, but could have unintended consequences for cost of capital, funding patterns, interconnectedness, and risk migration.

Subject: Banking, Basel III, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial statements, Insurance, Insurance companies, Public financial management (PFM), Solvency

Keywords: Bail-in capital proposal, Balance sheet, Bank assets, Basel III, Capital requirement, Conservation buffer, Cost of Capital, Credit risk, Equity capital, Europe, Fair value, Financial statements, Funding, Global, Holding company, Insurance, Insurance companies, Interconnectedness, Preference shares, Solvency, Solvency II, Unsecured debt, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    70

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2011/187

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2011187

  • ISBN:

    9781462308279

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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