G18 - General Financial Markets: Government Policy and RegulationReturn

This article investigates the efficiency and potential effects of establishing European banking union. We build on recapitalizing banks model introduced by Freixas (2003) and Schoenmaker and Siegmann (2013) to capture the efficiency improvement of resolution over banks in distress. Our data contains Europe's Top 27 banks by their level of equity. Mathematical evidence suggests efficiency improvement of resolution mechanism in all of analyzed economies in referenced years (2005, 2007, 2009 and 2012). The results also confirmed initial hypothesis that the positive effects of moving from home to supranational regulation framework are much more significant in years of good economic performance.