On the recordApril 27, 2017
I want to be clear that I think there could be a robust bankruptcy provision that would be helpful and that would be a supplement, but it can't be a substitute.
Source
congress.govI want to be clear that I think there could be a robust bankruptcy provision that would be helpful and that would be a supplement, but it can't be a substitute.
John Coffee argues that bankruptcy cannot replace orderly liquidation authority during financial crises.
Share
More from John C. Coffee
I think one is enormously important: systemic risk. All of the future of our economy depends upon being able to solve in a credible fashion the problems of major bank failure.
Don't throw that last resort out. It saved us in 2008, and not that much has changed in the regulation of the money market funds.
First, we must address the problem of financial institutions that are deemed too big--or perhaps too interconnected--to fail.