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12 posts from "October 2011"
October 24, 2011

Using Crisis Losses to Calibrate a Regulatory Capital Buffer

In response to the enormous losses experienced during the recent financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision reached a new international agreement on the amount of capital banks will be required to hold.

Posted at 10:00 am in Crisis, Financial Institutions | Permalink
October 21, 2011

Historical Echoes: Picturing a Century of Public Debt Burdens

Public debt has a long history, both here and abroad.

Posted at 10:00 am in Historical Echoes | Permalink
October 20, 2011

Just Released: Fed Proposes Simpler Rules for Banks’ Reserve Requirements

Reserve requirements—a critical tool available to Federal Reserve policymakers for the implementation of monetary policy—stipulate the amount of funds that banks and other depository institutions must hold in reserve against specified deposits, essentially checking accounts.

Posted at 7:00 am in Fed Funds, Financial Institutions | Permalink
October 19, 2011

Sizing Up the Fed’s Maturity Extension Program

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) recently announced its intention to extend the average maturity of its holdings of securities by purchasing $400 billion of Treasury securities with remaining maturities of six years to thirty years and selling an equal amount of Treasury securities with remaining maturities of three years or less.

October 18, 2011

Just Released: Money and Payments Workshop Examines Repo Market Reform

We have just posted the proceedings of a workshop held on October 7, 2011, which gathered the very latest thinking by academics, central bankers, and practitioners on how the repo market should be reformed to help avoid a recurrence of the recent financial crisis.

Posted at 10:00 am in Financial Markets, Repo | Permalink
October 17, 2011

Back to the Future: Revisiting the European Crisis

Recent financial developments are calling into question the future of regional economic integration.

October 14, 2011

Historical Echoes: The 1960s View of Modern Banking

In 1961, the Merchandise National Bank of Chicago produced a film presenting the newest development in leading-edge banking technology: computers.

Posted at 10:00 am in Historical Echoes | Permalink
October 12, 2011

Short‑Term Debt, Rollover Risk, and Financial Crises

One of the many striking features of the recent financial crisis was the sudden “freeze” in the market for the rollover of short-term debt.

October 11, 2011

Did the Fed’s Term Auction Facility Work?

We argue that the Fed’s Term Auction Facility (TAF), introduced in December 2007, lowered the cost of borrowing of banks in the market during the recent financial crisis.

October 7, 2011

Historical Echoes: When Virtual Money Saved the Day

In 1993, a plan hatched by four former economics grad school students helped rescue Brazil from a fifty-year inflationary spiral after all other attempts had failed.

Posted at 10:00 am in Historical Echoes | Permalink
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