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8 Lessons from the Crisis

Andrew Haldane

Bank of England

May 2009

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8 Lessons

• Finance is not a Golden Goose…

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Cumulative ‘Excess’ Returns to Finance

 

               

Date(a)

1900-1944

1945-1970

1971-1985

1986-2007

2007-2009

1900-2009  

Financials (%) 1.1 5.0 9.7 9.5 -40.8 3.8  

Total market (%) 0.1 4.6 10.8 7.3 -19.2 3.6  

Difference (pp) 1.0 0.4 -1.1 2.2 -21.6 0.2  

(a) Start of first year in range to end of second year in range except 2009, which ends in March.

UK Equity Market Annual Returns

Excess Returns to Finance

-2000

0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

12000

1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000

Per cent

UK equity market excess cumulative returns

Sources: Global Financial Data and Bank calculations.(a) Cumulative returns since start of 1900.

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8 Lessons

• Finance is not a Golden Goose…

• …unless it is geared

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Leverage and Returns on Equity

-80

-60

-40

-20

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

1920 1940 1960 1980 2000

RoA

Effect of leverage

Percentage points

Sources: Global Financial data, MFSD and FRD.(a) Using year-on-year observed RoE and observed unweighted leverage ratio to imply year-on-year RoA using RoE=RoA*Levg. Effect of leverage calculated as RoE - RoA.(b) Green lines show period average effect of leverage on year-on-year RoE, 1920-1945, 1945-71, 1971-86 and 1986-2007.

-15

-10

-5

0

5

10

15

20

25

1920 1940 1960 1980 2000

RoA

Effect of leverage

Percentage points

Contributions to Year-on-year UK Financial Equity Returns

-1.0%

-0.5%

0.0%

0.5%

1.0%

1.5%

2.0%

2.5%

3.0%

3.5%

4.0%

0 20 40 60

Pre tax profit/total assets

total assets/tier 1

5, 20 and 40 per cent RoE indifference curves2

Source: Bankscope1 Due to data availability issues2Average RoE = 21%Average leverage multiple = 29Average profit ratio = 1%

Profits and Leverage for Global Banks – End 2007

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8 Lessons

• Finance is not a Golden Goose…

• …unless it is geared

• Size matters

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Size and Leverage

Global Banks’ Size and Leverage ratios (a)

Capital Injections vs. Balance Sheet Size as at End 07

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- 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0

Capital injections $ billions

Total assets $ trillions

Source:An event study analysis of bank rescue packages, BIS 2009Global policy responses to financial crisis. Range of interventions: Tables I and II, IMF 2009TARP transactions report, Treasury, 20091 Equity injection = 2678350 + 0.01 *total assets P-values (0.235) (0.00)

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8 Lessons

• Finance is not a Golden Goose…

• …unless it is geared

• Size matters

• Banks cannot “pass” a stress-test

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Changing Distribution of Risk

Probability Density for UK GDP Growth Probability Density for UK Unemployment

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Long-Run Capital Levels for US Commercial Banks 1840-1993

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8 Lessons

• Finance is not a Golden Goose…

• …unless it is geared

• Size matters

• Banks cannot “pass” a stress-test

• Payment/settlement systems worked …

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Daily Volumes and Values Settled in CLS Activity in UK Settlement System (CREST)

Values in Payment/Settlement Systems

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8 Lessons

• Finance is not a Golden Goose…

• …unless it is geared

• Size matters

• Banks cannot “pass” a stress-test

• Payment/settlement systems worked …

• …but some OTC markets did not

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CDS Uncertainty and Central Counterparties

CDS Premia and Network Uncertainty – Pre Crisis CDS Premia and Network Uncertainty – Post Crisis

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8 Lessons

• Finance is not a Golden Goose…

• …unless it is geared

• Size matters

• Banks cannot “pass” a stress-test

• Payment/settlement systems worked …

• …but some OTC markets did not

• Poor eyesight generates blind panic

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Mapping the Global Financial Network

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8 Lessons

• Finance is not a Golden Goose…

• …unless it is geared

• Size matters

• Banks cannot “pass” a stress-test

• Payment/settlement system worked …

• …but some OTC markets did not

• Poor eyesight generates blind panic

• Banks need to earn profits

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Profitability of Banks

LCFI’s Return on Common Equity LCFI’s Equity Prices

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Cumulative Total Returns Pairwise correlation of cumulative returns

Returns to Financial Sectors

-0.4

-0.2

0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

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01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09

Correlation

Source: Bloomberg, CreditSuisse/Tremont and Bank calculations.

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Due Diligence Test

Typical contract details(a)

[1] Pages in CDO^2 prospectus 300 [2] Pages in ABS CDO prospectus 300 [3] Pages in RMBS prospectus 200 [4] Number of ABS CDO tranches in CDO^2 125 [5] Number of RMBS in a typical CDO 150 [6] Number of mortgages in typical RMBS 5,000 Metrics of complexity(a) [1] + [3]*[5]*[2]*[4] Pages to read for a CDO^2 investor 1,125,000,300 [2] + [3]*[5] Pages to read for an ABS CDO investor 30,300 [4]*[5]*[6] Max. number of mortgages in a CDO^2(b) 93,750,000 [5]*[6] Max. number of mortgages in an ABS CDO(c) 750,000

Sources: Bloomberg, deal documents and Bank calculations (a) CDO^2 is used as short-hand for CDO of ABS CDO. (b) Assuming there is no overlap in the composition of the RMBS pools that back the CDO or the CDO pools that back the CDO^2. (c) Assuming there is no overlap in the composition of the RMBS pools that back the CDO.

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Gross Capital Flows

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-40

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85 90 95 00 05

MFI inflow s MFI outf low sFinancial Account Inflow s Financial Account Outflow sCAD

% of GDP

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1990 1993 1996 1999 2002 2005 2008

-150

-100

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US$ bn US$ bn

Advanced economies (RHS)

EMEs (LHS)

UK gross cross-border capital flows Gross capital inflows

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Demand ShockPrudential objective

Stabilising Credit Supply

Stabilising Output

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Output

Lending

Capital Gap

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Capital

Lending Gap