We use a simple model to study whether private payment systems based on bank deposits can provide the optimal level of … safety. In the model, bank deposits backed by projects are subject to default risk that can be mitigated by a depositor's ex … ante and ex post monitoring. Safe payment instruments issued by a narrow bank can also be used as a back-up payment system …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …

This paper analyzes the implications of the gradual rise in bank concentration since the 1990s for the transmission of … the level of local bank concentration and bank capitalization. I find that banks operating in high-concentration markets … in local deposit and loan markets, along with bank capital requirements, lead to frictions on the pass-through to the …

CCPs; and the implications for bank, insurer and asset manager business models, in particular whether Brexit would act as a …

short run, FinTech competition induces negative deposit demand shocks and crowds out bank deposits. In response, banks more …