We design a new, implementable capital requirement for large financial institutions (LFIs) that are too big to fail. Our mechanism mimics the operation of margin accounts. To ensure that LFIs do not default on either their deposits or their derivative contracts, we require that they maintain a...

This paper reports estimates of the long-run costs and benefits of banks funding more of their assets with loss-absorbing capital, or equity. Measuring those costs requires careful consideration of a wide range of issues about how shifts in funding affect required rates of return and on how...

We develop a dynamic model to assess the effects of liquidity and leverage requirements on banks' insolvency risk. The model features endogenous capital structure, liquid asset holdings, payout, and default decisions. In the model, banks face taxation, flotation costs of securities, and default...

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...

(VF)Cet article étudie l’implication des investisseurs institutionnels, en tant qu’entité hétérogène, dans la gestion de l’entreprise. La connaissance de l’identité de ces institutions (les banques, les fonds de pension et les fonds communs de placement) peut s’avérer utile en...

(VF)Les communautés de pratiques très présentes dans le secteur financier sont peu étudiées en France. Nos résultats montrent que les pratiques d’échanges sont très homogènes d’un réseau à l’autre. Les thèmes abordés permettent d’illustrer la complexité des compétences...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the comparative advantages of bank branches and the trade area environment. Bank branches are points of sale whose trade environment influences their activities and performance. Comparative advantages are defined, for each output mix, by the strict...

We identify frictions in the market for liquidity as well as bank-specific and market-wide factors that affect the prices that banks pay for liquidity, captured here by borrowing rates in repos with the central bank and benchmarked by the overnight index swap. We have price data at the...

This paper examines funding modes of German banks and its implications for lending and profitability over the period 1992-2002. Analysing individual bank data from the Deutsche Bundesbank, we first find that deposits from customers lose ground in relative terms while interbank liabilities...

This paper considers the optimal taxation of savings intermediation and payment services in a dynamic general equilibrium setting, when the government can also use consumption and income taxes. When payment services are used in strict proportion to final consumption, and the cost of...