Contingent capital : a theoretical and empirical analysis

This thesis is about the design of contingent capital (CoCos) to induce monitoring and to therefore reduce the expected size of taxpayer funded bailouts. CoCos are debt instruments that either convert into debt or are written down when a bank approaches distress - based on a reduction in the bank�...

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Main Author: McCunn, Ayowande Adebiyi
Other Authors: Davies, Paul L. ; Morrison, Alan
Published: University of Oxford 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722574