removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic … stability in this period, we are able to isolate the effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …

Efforts in the United States to promote bank liquidity through reserve requirements, a minimum ratio of liquid assets … reserve requirements in favor of a central bank able to add liquidity to the financial system. This paper reviews the issues …, to provide some insights and lessons that are relevant today. A key lesson is that individual bank liquidity during …

framework in which fractional reserve banks emerge in equilibrium, where bank assets are funded with liabilities made demandable … in government money, where the terms of bank deposit contracts are affected by the liquidity insurance available in … financial markets, where banks are subject to runs, and where a central bank has a meaningful role to play, both in terms of …

maximize bank profits. These contracts are derived for both a monopolistic and a competitive banking industry. The analysis …

debt since the crisis.Against this background, Bank Negara Malaysia and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) co … approved by the Asian Consultative Council of central bank Governors in February 2015. The conference brought together senior …

We use a novel, household opinions-based measure – Public Confidence in a Bank – to explore the role of bank-level and … banks publicly monitored during 2010–2017. We find that public confidence in a bank is highly sensitive to the industry …-level financial stability indicators, but less sensitive to bank-level risk characteristics. This result reveals an important role of …