Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/172266 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IWH Discussion Papers No. 24/2017
Publisher: 
Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH), Halle (Saale)
Abstract: 
To safeguard financial stability and harmonise regulation, the European Commission substantially reformed banking supervision, resolution, and deposit insurance via EU directives. But most countries delay the transposition of these directives. We ask if transposition delays result from strategic considerations of governments conditional on the state of their financial, regulatory, and political systems? Supervisors might try to protect national banking systems and local politicians maybe reluctant to surrender national sovereignty to deal with failed banks. Alternatively, intricate financial regulation might require more implementation time in large and complex financial and political systems. We therefore collect data on the transposition delays of the three Banking Union directives and investigate observed delay variation across member states. Our correlation analyses suggest that existing regulatory and institutional frameworks, rather than banking market structure or political factors, matter for transposition delays.
Subjects: 
single rulebook
political economy
transposition delays
JEL: 
C41
F30
F55
G15
G18
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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