We find that a relatively large number of banks active in the derivatives market have low capital ratios and are considered institutions with a significant risk of failure by bank supervisors. However, we also find no evidence that the volume of derivatives activity at troubled banks affects the...

The wave of bank and savings and loan failures in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the resulting losses to deposit insurance funds, served to highlight the need for banks to hold sufficient capital to survive difficult times. In addition, many argued that deposit insurance reduces the market...

The dramatic reduction in the growth rate of bank lending associated with the 1990-91 recession, particularly in New England, has evoked claims by many observers of a credit crunch. However, because of the difficulty in determining whether the observed slow credit growth is a demand or supply...

Presentation by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, for the 2010 Financial Markets Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, May 12, 2010

Presentation by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, for a Panel Discussion at the Conference on Financial Markets and Monetary Policy, Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Washington, D.C.,...

Remarks by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, to the Financial Stability Institute, Bank for International Settlements, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 24, 2011

Presented by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, for the Institute of International Bankers Annual Washington Conference, Washington, DC, March 2, 2009

Remarks by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, at the Bank for International Settlements Forum on Key Regulatory and Supervisory Issues in a Basel III World, Bank of Korea, Seoul, Korea, February 25, 2013.