Staff Discussion Notes

The Too-Important-to-Fail Conundrum: Impossible to Ignore and Difficult to Resolve

ByInci Ötker, Aditya Narain, Anna Ilyina, Jay Surti

May 27, 2011

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Inci Ötker, Aditya Narain, Anna Ilyina, and Jay Surti. "The Too-Important-to-Fail Conundrum: Impossible to Ignore and Difficult to Resolve", Staff Discussion Notes 2011, 012 (2011), accessed 12/14/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781463926588.006

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Disclaimer: This Staff Discussion Note represents the views of the authors and does not necessarily represent IMF views or IMF policy. The views expressed herein should be attributed to the authors and not to the IMF, its Executive Board, or its management. Staff Discussion Notes are published to elicit comments and to further debate.

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DISCLAIMER: This Staff Discussion Note represents the views of the authors and does not necessarily represent IMF views or IMF policy. The views expressed herein should be attributed to the authors and not to the IMF, its Executive Board, or its management. Staff Discussion Notes are published to elicit comments and to further debate.

Subject: Bank resolution framework, Banking, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Moral hazard, Systemic risk, Systemically important financial institutions

Keywords: bail-in, bank, bank capital, bank funding, Bank resolution framework, bank risk-management system, Basel, Basel capital requirement, capital base, capital surcharge, contingent capital, equity capital, externalities SIFIs, Financial crises, financial regulation, financial stability, financial stability forum, FSB recommendation, Global, market, market discipline, moral hazard, nonbank SIFIs, nonviable SIFIs, resolution, SDN, SIFIs, supervision, Systemic risk, Systemically important financial institutions, too big to fail, too important to fail