Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211864 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Finland Discussion Papers No. 10/2000
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Abstract: 
Transparency regulation aims at reducing financial fragility by strengthening market discipline.There are however two elementary properties of banking that may render such regulation inefficient at best and detrimental at worst.First, an extensive financial safety net may eliminate the disciplinary effect of transparency regulation.Second, achieving transparency is costly for banks, as it dilutes their charter values, and hence it also reduces their private costs of risk-taking.We consider both the direct costs of complying with disclosure requirements and the indirect transparency costs stemming from imperfect property rights governing information and specify the conditions under which transparency regulation can (and cannot) reduce financial fragility.
Subjects: 
information disclosure
market discpline
bank transparency
deposit insurance
financial safety net
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ISBN: 
951-686-669-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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