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Increased use of uninsured deposits
Journal Article
Managing the expanded safety net
In this essay, we first briefly explain why the government?s response to the 2007?08 financial turmoil, although justified, expanded the safety net and exacerbated the existing too big to fail problem.
Journal Article
Is financial modernization anything new?
Journal Article
Addressing TBTF when banks merge: a proposal
A proposed bank merger and acquisition (M&A) provides a unique opportunity to address too big to fail concerns?the problem of big banks taking undue risks due to creditors? perceptions that government policymakers will bail them out to prevent spillovers from bank collapse. Under a preliminary reform proposal, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the U.S. Treasury would, as part of the review process for large bank M&As, be required to report on how they are putting large bank creditors at risk of loss. Linking M&A reviews to TBTF management reviews would have ...
Discussion Paper
Are banking supervisory data useful for macroeconomic forecasts?
Some argue that central banks can improve monetary policy by including confidential supervisory assessments of banking organizations in their forecasts of inflation and unemployment. In this study we examine the extent to which forecasts of these variables would have been improved with the inclusion of supervisory data. We begin by reproducing the earlier results used to support the claim. We critically examine them and extend the analysis from in-sample to out-of-sample testing. Finally, we check the robustness of our findings by extending the analysis period, using a different methodology ...