Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229715 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2021-009/IV
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
Since the Eurozone Crisis of 2010-12, a critical debate on the viability of a currency union has focused on the role of a fiscal union in adjusting for country heterogeneity. However, a fully-fledged fiscal union may not be politically feasible. This paper develops a two-country general equilibrium model to examine the benefits of the bankruptcy code of a capital markets union - in the absence of a fiscal union - as an alternative mechanism to improve the financial stability and welfare of a currency union. When domestic credit risks are present, I show that a lenient bankruptcy code in the cross-border capital markets union removes the pecuniary externality of banking insolvency, so it leads to a Pareto improvement within the currency union. Moreover, the absence of floating nominal exchange rates removes a mechanism to neutralise domestic credit risks; I show that softening the bankruptcy code can recoup the lost benefits of floating nominal exchange rates. The model provides the financial stability and welfare implications of bankruptcy within a capital markets union in the Eurozone.
Subjects: 
Equilibrium default
bankruptcy code
fiscal union
capital markets union
financial stability
bank credit and inside money
price-level and exchange rate determinacy
liquidity-intermediary asset pricing
JEL: 
E42
F33
G15
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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