Too Big to Fail Applied to Non-Financial Companies

This chapter develops a methodology to evaluate if a non-financial firm is “too big to fail” moreover we tested and applied the approach to 3 large European firms. The methodology consists in using the principles of the special regulation of financial firms in the USA plus a brief qualitative analysis. According to our analysis: Volkswagen Group is structurally “too big to fail” as many employments in Germany (and the world) depend on the continuity of its operations, Royal Dutch Shell is indirectly “Too big to fail” as its bankruptcy could collapse the London Stock Exchange, finally we believe that Anheuser-Busch InBev is not “Too big to fail” as the firm is rather a collection of firms that one entity.