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What reforms are needed to improve the safety and soundness of the banking system?


Abstract: To further improve bank safety and soundness in the years ahead, the author makes two recommendations: that banks be examined and rated specifically on their organizational complexity and that systemically important banks that are too big to resolve quickly be recapitalized according to a model that is known in advance by their competitors and by the general public.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Part of Series: Economic Review

Publication Date: 2007

Issue: Q1-2

Pages: 101-113

Order Number: v. 92, nos. 1-2