Assesment of the efficiency of the self discipline processes in banks

Finance literature underlines that banks are special, due to systemic risk concerns and public good features in the banking business. Therefore, disciplining the banking risks should be accepted as the core business for all participants of the discipline process. In this context, official discipline, market discipline and self discipline are the disciplinary mechanisms and aim to direct bank level risk management. Taking into account that official and market discipline need self discipline to direct bank level discipline process, we should note that self discipline is the essential tool in the disciplinary environment. Self discipline is the bank level control mechanism and risk management system is at the centre of this mechanism. Research question of the thesis is that weaknesses and inefficiencies of self discipline framework should be improved by positive externalities arising from the effective use of the market and official discipline despite their inherent weaknesses. As methodology, we used national and international data and literature for theoretical reasearch, case studies and regulations. Information and data problem of the failing banks has the limitation of the thesis. Therefore, we could analyze 4 Turkish banking institutions in the chapter 4 which are sufficient enough to clarify our argument. Finally, in terms of both theory and in the case of four failing Turkish banking institutions, the conclusion of our study is that although it is not easy to reach perfect disciplinary environment, weaknesses and inefficiencies of self discipline framework should be improved by both improving the current self discipline framework and also using positive externalities arising from the effective use of market and official discipline. In the context of Turkish banking, it is also defined that official and self discipline framework were improved after 2000-2001 economic crisis, but market discipline has still important limitations in terms of both regulatory framework and market practice.