On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...

Combining deposit taking with credit line provision saves on the liquidity costs banks incur to meet the liquidity needs of consumers and corporations, but it exposes them to a risk of concurrent runs on their assets and liabilities. If a bank's financial condition deteriorates, depositors have...

Asset recovery rate is a key factor for credit investors. This study explores the determinants of bank asset recovery rates during the recent downturn in the real estate sector and subsequent financial crisis. We find that banks relying on brokered deposit realize lower asset recovery rates....

We exploit an exogenous change in the coverage of insured deposits following the passage of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (2008) to investigate the impact of deposit insurance on the volume, composition and quality of credit union lending. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we...

We examine the role of private deposit insurance for deposit flows, bank lending, and moral hazard during a financial crisis. We present novel evidence that banks headquartered in Massachusetts whose deposits are federally and privately insured obtain more deposits, expand lending, and originate...

This paper provides a novel rationale for why banks combine lending and deposit taking. Contrary to existing work, it shows that demand deposits commit banks to monitoring even if deposit insurance is implemented. Investors with liquidity needs withdraw their deposits early and are not willing...

I develop an algorithm to approximate the loss rate distribution for fixed income portfolios with obligor concentrations. The approximation requires no advanced mathematics or statistics, only the summation of large exposures and the evaluation of binomial probabilities. The approximation is...

This paper examines banks' disclosures and loss recognition in the financial crisis and identifies several core issues for the link between accounting and financial stability. Our analysis suggests that, going into the financial crisis, banks' disclosures about relevant risk exposures were...

In this paper, we introduce a model to study the interaction between insurance and banking. We build on the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980, which significantly expanded and restructured the decades-old federal crop insurance program and adverse weather shocks - over-exposure of crops to heat...

In this paper, we show the benefits of bank asset diversification for the economy. A more diversified stream of earnings enables banks to better absorb negative shocks, leading to increased and more stable lending. This, in turn, provides positive spillovers to the economy. We demonstrate that...