DFA, however, requires that bank holding companies (BHCs) with $50 billion or more in consolidated assets must be …

2007-2009. The fear is that if a big bank gets into trouble, its problems will infect other financial institutions and … there are huge complexities at almost every level. What is “big?” How big is too big? What is a “bank?” What kinds of risk …-taking are appropriate for a bank – and why? What do we know about the costs and benefits of different strategies? This paper …

supervisory practices, and there is a roughly equal division between those countries that rely on the central bank as the chief … bank or indirectly through a subsidiary of a bank, rather than through a holding company structure. The notable exceptions … illustrating a way in which empirical examinations of bank performance might be enriched by taking into account differences in …

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory … questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory … performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank …

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss and then analyze the interdependency between bank and sovereign risk … evidence supporting the existence of significant bank and sovereign risk linkages. There are, however, different patterns in … the relationships across countries and even across banks within the same country. Also, higher correlations between bank …

devoted to systematically and comprehensively assess the degree to which WTO Members discriminate against foreign bank. This … available on their current regulatory regime for banking (based on the responses to a World Bank survey as discussed in Barth …

“Too big to fail” traditionally refers to a bank that is perceived to generate unacceptable risk to the banking system … and indirectly to the economy as a whole if it were to default and unable to fulfill its obligations. Such a bank … of contagion if a bank fails. The main objectives in this paper are to identify the different dimensions of “too big to …