Doom Loops and Europe’s Financial System
Doom Loops and Europe’s Financial System
This week’s IGM European Economic Experts Panel statements:
A) Breaking the “doom loop” — a negative spiral that can result when banks hold sovereign bonds and governments bail out banks — would increase the stability of European economies in the event of another financial crisis.
B) Regulators should try to break the doom loop by assigning positive risk weights — in calculating banks’ capital requirements — to banks’ holdings of domestic and other Eurozone sovereign bonds.
C) Breaking the doom loop would impose substantial costs on powerful political constituencies.