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Prompt Corrective Action in Banking: 10 Years Later

G.G. Kaufman

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Description for Prompt Corrective Action in Banking: 10 Years Later Hardback. In December 1991, the US Congress enacted and President George Bush signed Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA). This title provides knowledge on improving the performance of banking systems. It is useful to researchers and policy-makers both in evaluating regulatory structures and in designing modified structures. Series: Research in Financial Services: Private & Public Policy. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KCP; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 658.
In December 1991, the U.S. Congress enacted and President George Bush signed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA). The Act was motivated by the severity of the U.S. banking and thrift crisis of the 1980s and represented the most important banking legislation since the Banking (Glass-Steagall) Act, which was enacted in 1933 at the depth of the previous most severe banking crisis in U.S. history. Between 1980 and 1991, some 1,500 commercial and savings banks, representing 10 percent of the industry in 1980, failed and more than 1,000 savings and loan associations, representing 25 percent of the industry, ... Read morefailed. In addition, delays in resolving the failures helped to increase the cost beyond the resources of the then Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) and required the taxpayers to pay some $150 billion To insured depositors at these institutions. The large number and high cost of the failures were in large measure attributable to serious flaws in the extant government-sponsored deposit insurance program that encouraged insured institutions to assume excessive credit and interest rate risks and bank regulators to delay imposing corrective sanctions on troubled institutions and resolving economically insolvent institutions. FDICIA attempted to correct these flaws by reforming the deposit insurance structure through requiring regulatory prompt corrective action (PCA) and least cost resolution (LCR).PCA mandated a series of both discretionary and mandatory sanctions that the regulators first may and then must apply as an institutions' financial health progressively deteriorates as reflected in a number of capital-to-asset ratios. These sanctions are intended to encourage the institutions to reverse their deterioration before it is too late. But if they fail to do so, PCA requires resolution of the institution before their book-value capital is fully depleted. This is intended to minimize any losses from failure. The designed PCA sanctions are modelled after the actual sanctions that the private market typically imposes on troubled firms in uninsured industries and that are distorted in banking by the government-provided insurance. Thus, FDICIA attempts to supplement regulatory and supervisory discipline with stimulated market discipline. Since its introduction in the United States in 1991, PCA has been explicitly or implicitly adopted in word if not spirit in many developed and developing countries with greatly different banking and regulatory structures. How well has it worked or could it work? The papers also consider reinforcing or alternative prudential techniques. Thus, they add to our storehouse of knowledge on improving the performance of banking systems and should prove useful to researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers both in evaluating extant regulatory structures and in designing new or modified structures. All the papers were presented by the authors and commented on by the discussants at invited sessions at the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association in Seattle, Washington in July 2002. Maia Pykina (Loyola University Chicago) provided assistance both in arranging the session programs and in preparing the papers for publications. Show Less

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Hardback

Publication date

2003

Publisher

Emerald Publishing Limited United States

Number of pages

344

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New

Series

Research in Financial Services: Private & Public Policy

Number of Pages

344

Place of Publication

, United States

ISBN

9780762309870

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V9780762309870

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