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ORCID

Matias Huhtilainen 0000-0001-8191-0388

Keywords

CRD IV; Banking Union; Macroprudential Regulation; Systemic Stability; Trust

Abstract

Prior studies suggest that regulatory uncertainty is potentially detrimental to the wider economic performance, to the effectiveness of regulatory measures and to the objective of harmonized rules and a level playing field across jurisdictions. This paper discusses on the applicability of banks’ perceived trust as a method to evaluate the quality of the EU macroprudential regulation. Accordingly, the regulatory credibility, as opposed to regulatory uncertainty, is assumed to indicate consistent, predictable and solid regulatory and institutional environment. This paper argues that the perception of trust and the regulatory credibility are interrelated so that one cannot exist without the other. For the purpose of this study, a representative survey was conducted with Finnish banks and conglomerates. Although the respondents expressed, overall, slight trust in the ability of the renewed EU macroprudential regime to accomplish its intended objectives, definitive and direct conclusions are avoided. This is due to the several limitations of the survey and as such, the results are merely to provide context for the paper.

First Page

29

Last Page

38

Page Count

10

Received Date

26 July 2018

Revised Date

19 June 2019

Accept Date

16 August 2019

Online Available Date

29 October 2019

DOI

10.7172/2353-6845.jbfe.2019.2.2

JEL Code

G280; G210; K220

Publisher

University of Warsaw

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