financial debates and research. Narrow banking would prevent deposit-issuing banks from lending to the private sector and … restrict nonbank intermediaries from funding investments with demand deposits. Proponents of narrow banking defend it as a step … narrow banking with contemporary banking theories, and evaluates the potential consequences of narrow banking on finance and …

When a country''s banking system becomes more linked to the global banking network, does that system get more or less … prone to a banking crisis? Using model simulations and econometric estimates based on a world-wide dataset, we find an M …-shaped relationship between financial stability of a country''s banking sector and its interconnectedness. In particular, for banking …

Recoveries vary considerably across countries: our paper compares recoveries in bank-based and market-based economies … and finds that market-based economies experience significantly and durably stronger rebounds than the bank-based ones (in … particular the more bank-based economies of continental Europe). Further, stronger recoveries also tend to be associated with …

of the traditional bank business model. Specialized providers of financial services can chip away activities that do not …