1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 A Primer for Economics of Banking -- Part I Too-Big-to-Fail in Banking Review -- 3 Introduction to Too-Big-to-Fail in Banking -- 4 TBTF Causal Chain: Explicit and Implicit Government Guarantees -- 5 Public Cost and Benets of TBTF -- 6 TBTF Policy Recommendations...

The paper analyzes the effects of changes to regulatory policy and to monetary policy on cross-border bank lending since the global financial crisis. Cross-border bank lending has decreased, and the home bias in the credit portfolio of banks has risen sharply, especially among banks in the euro...

Did policy interventions contribute to the gradual segmentation of lending markets starting with the 2007 - 2008 global financial crisis? We investigate this question in an international Cournot duopoly model under an equity constraint. Two symmetric multinational banks compete for corporate...

The financial crisis of 2008, like the pandemic Spanish flu 90 years prior, spanned the globe twice and caused substantial destruction. It also introduced an entirely new lexicon of economic and regulatory terminology, such as “contagion” and “systemic shock,” into the popular and...