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While the Dodd Frank Act (DFA) broadens the regulatory reach to reduce systemic risks to the U.S. financial system, it does not address some important risks that could migrate to or emanate from entities outside the federal safety net. At the same time, it limits the types of interventions by...
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This paper examines the optimal design of and interaction between capital and liquidity regulations in a model characterized by fire sale externalities. In the model, banks can insure against potential liquidity shocks by hoarding sufficient precautionary liquid assets. However, it is never...
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The Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 alters the competitive structure of the debit card payment processing industry and caps debit card interchange fees for banks with over $10 billion in assets. Market participants predicted that debit...
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Bank accounts are critical for participation in the modern economy. However, these accounts frequently require … in bank fees between LMI, majority-minority, and other communities result from various factors, including bank lending … income, bank operating costs, and bank size …
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Bank deregulation in the form of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act facilitated the entry of non-bank lenders into … conventional view that regulatory arbitrage caused the rise of non-bank lenders …
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? To investigate this question, I exploit changes in tax rates on bank profits across U.S. states. Banks respond by …
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This paper studies what determines whether federal and state supervisors examine state banks independently or together. The results suggest that supervisors coordinate examinations in order to support states with lower budgets and capabilities and more banks to supervise. I find that states with...
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We exploit variation in commercial bank capital ratios across states to identify the impact of commercial bank balance … indicate a lack of substitutes for bank funding both in the short and long run. This lack of substitutes implies a notable … highlight the potential effects that bank balance sheet pressures, for example, from tightening capital adequacy standards, such …
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the banks' trading revenues and help to explain the bank VaR performance results. While highly conservative in the pre …-crisis period, bank VaR exceedances were excessive and clustered in the crisis period. All benchmark VaRs were more accurate in the …-period market conditions. Despite their weaker performance, the bank VaRs exhibited greater predictive power for a measure of …
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change charters, an effect that is large for both national and state charters. In addition, controlling for bank ratings …
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