1 Introduction -- 2 General Issues in Bankruptcy Law -- 3 Are Banks Special? Implications for Bank Bankruptcy Law -- 4 Systemic Crises -- 5 General Issues on the structure of Banking Industry -- 6 Current Bank Bankruptcy Regimes and Recent Developments -- 7 Optimal Design of Bank Bankruptcy Law...

We study the effects of a bank’s engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long-term oriented, with high implicit capital, and low risk (thanks to the law of large numbers). Trading is transactions-based: scalable, short-term, capital constrained, and with...

Banks increasingly use short-term wholesale funds to supplement traditional retail deposits. Existing literature mainly points to the "bright side" of wholesale funding: sophisticated financiers can monitor banks, disciplining bad but refinancing good ones. This paper models a "dark side" of...