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Regulating Fintech: One Size Does Not Fit All
White, Carl (2021-02-24)
As fintech companies make inroads into banking, they have raised regulatory issues at the state and federal levels.
On the Economy

Report
Dealer balance sheets and bond liquidity provision
Boyarchenko, Nina; Adrian, Tobias; Shachar, Or (2016-12-01)
Do regulations decrease dealer ability to intermediate trades? Using a unique data set of dealer-bond-level transactions, we link changes in liquidity of individual U.S. corporate bonds to dealers? transaction activity and balance sheet constraints. We show that, prior to the financial crisis, bonds traded by more levered institutions and institutions with investment-bank-like characteristics were more liquid but this relationship reverses after the financial crisis. In addition, institutions that face more regulations after the crisis both reduce their overall volume of trade and have less ...
Staff Reports , Paper 803

Working Paper
Banking on the Boom, Tripped by the Bust: Banks and the World War I Agricultural Price Shock
Wheelock, David C.; Jaremski, Matthew (2017-11-03)
How do banks respond to asset booms? This paper examines i) how U.S. banks responded to the World War I farmland boom; ii) the impact of regulation; and iii) how bank closures exacerbated the post-war bust. The boom encouraged new bank formation and balance sheet expansion (especially by new banks). Deposit insurance amplified the impact of rising crop prices on bank portfolios, while higher minimum capital requirements dampened the effects. Banks that responded most aggressively to the asset boom had a higher probability of closing in the bust, and counties with more bank closures ...
Working Papers , Paper 2017-36

Working Paper
Embedded Supervision: How to Build Regulation into Blockchain Finance
Auer, Raphael (2019-10-01)
The spread of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in finance could help to improve the efficiency and quality of supervision. This paper makes the case for embedded supervision, i.e., a regulatory framework that provides for compliance in tokenized markets to be automatically monitored by reading the market?s ledger, thus reducing the need for firms to actively collect, verify and deliver data. After sketching out a design for such schemes, the paper explores the conditions under which distributed ledger data might be used to monitor compliance. To this end, a decentralized market is modelled ...
Globalization Institute Working Papers , Paper 371

Journal Article
Policy Update: Stability for Stablecoins?
Taylor, Sam Louis (2024-12-05)
Cryptocurrencies have come a long way: From an academic idea in the 1980s to the birth of bitcoin in 2009 to their current state as a multi-trillion-dollar tradable asset class, they have become a major part of the financial system and, increasingly, an important policy issue. State and federal governments have sought to understand the risks and benefits of these often volatile assets, resulting in a patchwork of regulatory structures. One important type of cryptocurrency for which regulation has been contentious is stablecoins, whose value is pegged to an existing asset, often the dollar.
Econ Focus , Volume 24 , Issue 4Q , Pages 7

Report
Bank Complexity, Governance, and Risk
Goldberg, Linda S.; Correa, Ricardo (2020-06-01)
Bank holding companies (BHCs) can be complex organizations, conducting multiple lines of business through many distinct legal entities and across a range of geographies. While such complexity raises the costs of bank resolution when organizations fail, the effect of complexity on BHCs’ broader risk profiles is less well understood. Business, organizational, and geographic complexity can engender explicit trade-offs between the agency problems that increase risk and the diversification, liquidity management, and synergy improvements that reduce risk. The outcomes of such trade-offs may ...
Staff Reports , Paper 930

Working Paper
Banks' search for yield in the low interest rate environment: a tale of regulatory adaptation
Wang, J. Christina (2017-06-01)
This paper examines whether the low interest rate environment that has prevailed since the Great Recession has compelled banks to reach for yield. It is important to recognize that banks can take on a variety of risks that offer higher yields today but incur different forms of future losses. Some losses, such as mark-to-market losses due to yield increases, can be avoided with accounting treatments whereas others, chiefly credit losses, cannot. A simple model shows that a bank?s incentive to take on risks for which potential future losses can be managed, such as interest rate risk, is ...
Working Papers , Paper 17-3

Working Paper
Did residential electricity rates fall after retail competition? a dynamic panel analysis
Yücel, Mine K.; Swadley, Adam (2011)
A key selling point for the restructuring of electricity markets was the promise of lower prices, that competition among independent power suppliers would lower electricity prices to retail customers. There is not much consensus in earlier studies on the effects of electricity deregulation, particularly for residential customers. Part of the reason for not finding a consistent link with deregulation and lower prices was that the removal of the transitional price caps led to higher prices. In addition, the timing of the removal of price caps coincided with rising fuel prices, which were passed ...
Working Papers , Paper 1105

Journal Article
Banking Trends: Skin in the Game in the CMBS Market
DiSalvo, James; Johnston, Ryan (2018-01)
Issuers of commercial mortgage-backed securities must now retain a portion on their own books. What evidence is there that the rule will reduce risky lending?
Banking Trends , Issue Q1 , Pages 11-17

Discussion Paper
Are New Repo Participants Gaining Ground?
Copeland, Adam; Tarascina, Anya; Selig, Ira (2019-04-03)
Following the 2007-09 financial crisis, regulations were introduced that increased the cost of entering into repurchase agreements (repo) for bank holding companies (BHC). As a consequence, banks and securities dealers associated with BHCs, a set of firms which dominates the repo market, were predicted to pull back from the market. In this blog post, we examine whether this changed environment allowed new participants, particularly those not subject to the new regulations, to emerge. We find that although new participants have come on the scene and made gains, they remain a small part of the ...
Liberty Street Economics , Paper 20190403

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