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Catherine L. Mann OECD Chief Economist
22 September 2017
London
CEPR
“10 Years After the Crisis”
How to get regulation right? Balancing growth, risk, and equity
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OECD resilience framework: Potential trade-offs between growth and risk
and, how do growth and risk interact with equity?
Tail risk = the risk of an extreme negative
growth shock
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GDP-at-Risk =
quantile of the GDP
growth distribution
Extreme
negative
growth
i.e. max GDP loss with 95% prob.
Financial regulation typically presents a
trade-off between growth and risk
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Note: The X axis plots the effect on fragility; Fragility is defined as higher likelihood of financial crises (polices with red outline) or a higher GDP (negative) tail risk.
Three types of financial crises are considered: Currency, banking and twin crises. Tail risk is defined as the effect on the bottom 10% of the distribution for
quarterly GDP growth. For each policy, the Y axis plots the average (overall) growth effect.
Source: Authors’ calculation based on Caldera Sánchez and Gori and by Caldera Sánchez and Röhn.
Macro-prudential
policies can reduce
fragility, but may also
lower growth
Growth benefits from
financial market
liberalisation offset
by higher crisis risk
Too much, or the wrong kind of finance: Negatively associated with growth and inequality
Increase in Gini coefficients due to higher
credit For 10% of GDP increase , Gini impact in percentage points
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Note: The error bars show 90% confidence intervals.
Source: Cournède and Denk (2015), “Finance and Economic Growth in OECD and G20 countries”.
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Bank credit Stockmarketcapitalisation
Growth impact of higher credit For 10% of GDP increase in credit or stock market
capitalization, in percentage points
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All bank creditto the non-
financialprivate sector
Householdcredit
Deposit moneybank credit
Bond (andother non-
bank) credit
Stockmarketcapitalisation
Bank credit: A suspect in raising economic insecurity
Change in labour earnings growth at different percentiles of the earnings
growth distribution In percentage points
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Source: OECD estimations using harmonised household survey data from 29 countries
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Bank credit Bonds and other non-bank credit
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How is finance and regulation failing to
support strong, inclusive, resilient growth?
Implicit subsidies to TBTF institutions
Wage premium in finance
Lack of credit for dynamic firms
Bank forbearance and zombies
Too-Big-to-Fail Implicit Subsidies: More negatively associated with growth
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Implicit bank debt guarantees influence the relationship between bank
credit and GDP growth Percentage point change in real GDP per capita growth associated with an increase in bank credit by 10% of GDP
Note: The figure shows econometric estimates of the association of an increase in bank credit with GDP growth, controlling for a wide
range of factors. The point estimates are surrounded by 90% confidence intervals.
Source: Schich, Cournède and Denk (2015), “Finance and Economic Growth in OECD and G20 countries”.
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Countries where bank creditorshave been shielded from losses
Other countries
Estimated financial-sector wage premium across the income distribution, European countries, %, 2010
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Large wage premium in finance: Adds to inequality
Note: Dotted lines show 90% confidence intervals.
Source: Denk (2015), “Financial Sector Pay and Labour Income Inequality: Evidence from Europe
Smaller growth company listings (IPOs) in advanced economies
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Declining small growing company listings: Part of decline in business dynamism
Source: OECD Business and Finance Scoreboard 2017
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United States Advanced Europe Japan Number of issuesUSD, billion No. issues
Zombie firms: Associated with weak banks
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Note: Panel A shows the average level of bank health across 11 European countries (Austria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia,
Portugal, Slovenia Spain and the United Kingdom), weighted by the number of firms for which a bank is considered to be their main bank. Bank health is
given by the first principal component (i.e. the one associated with the largest eigenvalue) from a principal component analysis of seven core balance
sheet and financial statement variables of banks. Panel B shows the average zombie firm share for each bin of bank health, purged of country-industry-
fixed effects. The relationship is statistically significant at the 1% level and is based on over 1.5 million firm-bank observations for 11 European countries
over the period 2001-2014.
Source: Andrews, D. and F. Petroulakis (2017), “Breaking the Shackles: Zombie Firms, Weak Banks and Depressed Restructuring in Europe”, OECD
Economics Department Working Papers, forthcoming.
Average zombie firm share for each
category of bank health
The
Bank health composite index
Less healthy
Zombies capture capital, reduce dynamism: Turnaround positively associated with productivity
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Capital sunk in zombie firms Share of total capital stock, 2013
Note: Firms aged 10 years or more and with profits not covering interest payments over three consecutive years. The sample excludes
firms that are larger than 100 times the 99th percentile of the size distribution in terms of capital stock or number of employees.
RHS: Counterfactual gains to aggregate MFP from reducing zombie capital shares to industry best practice level.
Source: LHS: Adalet McGowan, Andrews and Millot (2017), “The Walking Dead? Zombie Firms and Productivity Performance in
OECD Countries”, OECD Economics Department working paper; and OECD calculations.
Productivity gains from reducing zombie capital Gains to aggregate multi-factor productivity
How to Get Regulation Right
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Need to balance growth, risk and minimise trade-offs
• Post-crisis overhaul of regulation has focussed mostly on risk
• Other policies matter too
A well-developed and healthy financial system is needed
• Reduce debt subsidies
• Clean up remaining banking problems
• Europe needs to achieve overhaul of bank business model
Challenge: how to make finance more inclusive
Resources: blogs, ppt, video, research
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The
Economic Resilience Finance and Inclusive Growth Global Forum on Productivity
Research teams: Boris Cournède, Alain de Serres, Guiseppe Nicoletti, Peter Hoeller, Oliver Denk, Aida Caldera
Sanchez, Priscilla Fialho, Filippo Gori, Dan Andrews, Chiara Criscuolo, Valentine Millot, Muge Adalet McGown,
Serdar Celik