Category: Banking
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Revisiting narrow banking
The recent policy interventions to stave off the March banking crisis were significantly sizeable, relative to economic output, in a long-run context. Could narrow banking prevent future crises?
How informative are bank stress tests?
Market participants follow closely the results of the Fed’s stress tests. But did the recent tests examine higher interest rates?
The current state of U.S. banking
How many banks are in danger? How to prevent the next crisis?
Banking concentration vs competition
Interesting new research on whether competition in the banking sector leads to financial instability.
International spillovers of bank capital requirements
New research on: how capital requirements affect the strategic incentives among regulators in different jurisdictions; and on the cross-country impact of the internal ratings-based method for calculating banks’ capital requirements.
On bank reserves
New research comparing the impact of bank reserve requirements vs reserve renumeration on liquidity in a closed and an open economy.
Another look at too-big-to-fail
New research on bank resolution mechanisms and how to solve the too-big-to-fail conundrum.
Deposit insurance and moral hazard
What can the German Crisis of 1931 teach us about depositors’ behavior.
On bigger banks
New research on how increased concentration in the banking industry affects the economy.