Regulating Access to International Large-Value Payment Systems

44 Pages Posted: 31 Dec 2000

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Cornelia Holthausen

European Central Bank (ECB); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Thomas Rønde

University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics; Center for Economic and Business Research (CEBR); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: June 2000

Abstract

This paper studies access regulation to international large-value payment systems when banking supervision is national task. We focus on the choice between net settlement or imposing real time gross settlement. As a novel feature, the communication between the supervisors is endogenized. It is shown that the national supervisors' preferences regarding the settlement method are not perfectly aligned. As a result, systemic risk is excessive under public regulation. Still, leaving access regulation to the private banks can only be optimal if they have superior information about the risk of their foreign counterparty in the settlement system.

Keywords: Large-value Payment Systems, Regulation, Supervision, Systemic Risk

JEL Classification: E58, G20, G28

Suggested Citation

Holthausen, Cornelia and Rønde, Thomas, Regulating Access to International Large-Value Payment Systems (June 2000). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=249848 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.249848

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