Thesis supervisor: Katalin Mérő
Location of studies (in Hungarian): University of Szeged Abbreviation of location of studies: SZTE
Description of the research topic:
The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the consecutive sovereign crises pointed out that there is a contradiction between the national responsibility of banking supervision and crisis resolution and the need of EU level intervention in case of banking problems, as well as that there is a vicious circle between banks and their sovereigns in case of a serious financial crisis. The aims of the establishment of the European Banking Union (BU) are to create consistency between the responsibilities in regulation and supervision and competencies in crisis resolution and to break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns. The EU decided on the establishment of the Banking Union in 2012. Its first and second pillars, that is the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the Single Resolution Mechanism, have already been established, while the third pillar, the European Deposit Insurance Scheme, is subject of political debates. Banking Union related researches among others, focus on the following issues: Efficiency, deficiencies, incentive structures of the BU on general and country level or in relation to its pillars; the political economy of operational and isnstitutional framework of the BU.
Own publications related to the topic:
• Mérő Katalin and Piroska Dóra (2018): Rethinking the allocation of macroprudential mandates within the Banking Union: a perspective from east of the BU, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC POLICY REFORM 21:3 pp. 240-256
• Mérő Katalin and Piroska Dóra (2016) Banking Union and Banking Nationalism – Explaining opt-out choices of Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, POLICY AND SOCIETY 35:(3) pp. 215-226.