Incomplete supervisory cooperation

53 Pages Posted: 7 Dec 2022

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Thorsten Beck

City University London - The Business School; European University Institute; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Consuelo Silva Buston

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - School of Business

Wolf Wagner

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)

Date Written: July 6, 2022

Abstract

Banking supervisors frequently cooperate across countries, but cooperation only imperfectly covers the global operations of large banking groups. We show that this causes significant third-country externalities. Using hand-collected supervisory cooperation data, we document that banking groups shift lending activities and risk into third-country subsidiaries when cooperation agreements cover their operations in other countries. The implied country-level increase in the share of foreign loans is 16%. We also show that countries do not internalize third-country effects when making cooperation decisions, resulting in a 26 percentage point higher propensity to cooperate. Overall, our results highlight a need for "cooperating on cooperation".

Keywords: Supranational cooperation; cross-border banking; externalities

JEL Classification: G1, G2

Suggested Citation

Beck, Thorsten and Silva Buston, Consuelo and Wagner, Wolf, Incomplete supervisory cooperation (July 6, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4025170 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4025170

Thorsten Beck

City University London - The Business School ( email )

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Consuelo Silva Buston

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - School of Business ( email )

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Santiago
Chile

Wolf Wagner (Contact Author)

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) ( email )

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Netherlands

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