If stable and efficient banks are such a good idea, why are they so rare? -- The game of bank bargains -- Tools of … colonial times to 1990 -- The new U.S. bank bargain : megabanks, urban activists, and the erosion of mortgage standards … -- Leverage, regulatory failure, and the subprime crisis -- Durable partners : politics and banking in Canada -- Mexico : chaos …

opted for issuing blanket guarantees on bank liabilities to stop or avoid widespread bank runs. In theory, blanket … guarantees can prevent bank runs if they are credible. However, guarantee could add substantial fiscal costs to bank …

interventions aimed at alleviating the bank capital crunch. We find that the growth of firms dependent on external financing is … disproportionately positively affected by bank recapitalization policies, and that this effect is quantitatively important and robust to …

The appropriate level of bank capital and, more generally, a bank's capacity to absorb losses, has been at the core of … to avoid imposing losses on bank creditors or resorting to public recapitalizations of banks in past banking crises. The … bank credit and lending rates. Its findings broadly support the range of loss absorbency suggested by the Financial …