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Technological Change and Central Banking
Andolfatto, David (2024-01-05)
The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) represents a radically new way to manage databases. Since money and payments are all about managing databases and since banks play a central role in money and payments, DAO-based money and payments systems are potentially a disruptive force in the banking system—which includes central banks. One would normally expect regulatory frameworks to evolve with a changing technological landscape. However, the decentralized governance structure characteristic of DAOs renders it near impossible to regulate these entities directly—a property that makes ...
Review , Volume 106 , Issue 1 , Pages 1-9

Journal Article
Banking Trends: Measuring Cov-Lite Right
Yu, Edison (2018-07)
More business loans today lack traditional covenants governing borrowers. Does that leave banks with fewer tools to ward off default?
Economic Insights , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , Pages 1-8

Interest rate volatility contributed to higher mortgage rates in 2022
Frame, W. Scott; McCormick, Matthew (2023-04-04)
The Federal Reserve aggressively tightened monetary policy in 2022, responding to high and persistent inflation. The resulting borrowing cost increase for households and firms was generally anticipated. However, fixed-rate mortgage interest rates were especially sensitive to the policy regime change.
Dallas Fed Economics

Report
LIBOR: origins, economics, crisis, scandal, and reform
Hou, David; Skeie, David R. (2014-03-01)
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is a widely used indicator of funding conditions in the interbank market. As of 2013, LIBOR underpins more than $300 trillion of financial contracts, including swaps and futures, in addition to trillions more in variable-rate mortgage and student loans. LIBOR's volatile behavior during the financial crisis provoked questions surrounding its credibility. Ongoing regulatory investigations have uncovered misconduct by a number of financial institutions. Policymakers across the globe now face the task of reforming LIBOR in the aftermath of the scandal and ...
Staff Reports , Paper 667

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Banking Trends: Has the Banking Industry Become Too Concentrated?
DiSalvo, James (2023-03-27)
By one key measure, the banking market has become highly concentrated, but other measures suggest a more nuanced story.
Banking Trends , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Pages 11-26

Working Paper
Origins of Too-Big-to-Fail Policy
Prescott, Edward Simpson; Nurisso, George (2017-05-24)
This paper traces the origin of the too-big-to-fail problem in banking to the bailout of the $1.2 billion Bank of the Commonwealth in 1972. It describes this bailout and those of subsequent banks through that of Continental Illinois in 1984. Motivations behind the bailouts are described with a particular emphasis on those provided by Irvine Sprague in his book Bailout. During this period, market concentration due to interstate banking restrictions is a factor in most of the bailouts, and systemic risk concerns were raised to justify the bailouts of surprisingly small banks. Sprague?s ...
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 1710

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Cyclical Properties of Bank Margins: Small versus Large Banks
Grochulski, Borys; Zhang, Yuzhe; Schwam, Daniel (2018-01)
We study cyclical properties of the net interest margin (NIM) in the US banking sector in the aggregate as well as separately for small and large banks. In the aggregate and among large banks, NIM is countercyclical. Among small banks, however, NIM is procyclical. Further, we find that this result is driven by differences in the cyclical dynamics of small and large banks' funding costs rather than asset yields.
Economic Quarterly , Issue 1Q , Pages 1-33

Journal Article
“Stress Testing” Banks on Commercial Real Estate
Faria-e-Castro, Miguel; Jordan-Wood, Samuel (2023-12-18)
Recent research tests the effects of a large (hypothetical) drop in commercial real estate prices: Banks most affected would be small and the resulting noncompliance would apply to a small fraction of assets in the US banking system.
Economic Synopses , Issue 26 , Pages 3 pages

Discussion Paper
Can I Speak to Your Supervisor? The Importance of Bank Supervision
Hirtle, Beverly; Kovner, Anna (2024-04-15)
In March of 2023, the U.S. banking industry experienced a period of significant turmoil involving runs on several banks and heightened concerns about contagion. While many factors contributed to these events—including poor risk management, lapses in firm governance, outsized exposures to interest rate risk, and unrecognized vulnerabilities from interconnected depositor bases, the role of bank supervisors came under particular scrutiny. Questions were raised about why supervisors did not intervene more forcefully before problems arose. In response, supervisory agencies, including the Federal ...
Liberty Street Economics , Paper 20240415

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Development bank funds border infrastructure to aid U.S.–Mexico trade
Orrenius, Pia M. (2024-03-22)
Calixto Mateos, former managing director of the North American Development Bank, discusses his work at the NADBank and its role enhancing trade.
Southwest Economy

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