178 posts on "Banks"
October 1, 2014
Cross‑Country Evidence on Transmission of Liquidity Risk through Global Banks
Over the past thirty years, the typical large bank has become a global entity with subsidiaries in many countries.
Posted at 7:00 am in Banks, Euro Area, Financial Institutions, Financial Markets, International Economics, Liquidity | Permalink
April 4, 2014
Parting Reflections on the Series on Large and Complex Banks
The motivation for the Economic Policy Review series was to understand better the behavior of large and complex banks, and we have covered a lot of ground toward that end.
Why Large Bank Failures Are So Messy and What to Do about It?
If the Lehman Brothers failure proved anything, it was that large, complex bank failures are messy; they destroy value and can destabilize financial markets.
April 1, 2014
Mixing and Matching Collateral in Dealer Banks
The failure or near-collapse of some of the largest dealer banks on Wall Street in 2008 highlighted the profound complexity of the industry.
March 31, 2014
Measuring Global Bank Complexity
Paraphrasing a famous Supreme Court opinion: “I know bank complexity when I see it.”
Posted at 7:00 am in Banks, Euro Area, Financial Markets, International Economics, Regulation | Permalink
May 29, 2013
Piggy Banks
What do banks do?
January 9, 2013
Ring‑Fencing and “Financial Protectionism” in International Banking
Some market watchers and academic researchers are concerned about a “Balkanization” of banking, owing to a sharp decline in cross-border international banking activity, and an increased home bias of financial transactions.
Posted at 7:00 am in Banks, Financial Institutions, International Economics, Liquidity, Regulation | Permalink
October 10, 2012
Tracking the U.S. Banking Industry
The New York Fed has recently published the first edition of a new quarterly report tracking the aggregate financial condition of consolidated U.S. banking organizations. In this post, we describe the methodology used to construct the statistics in the report as well as present and briefly discuss some of the findings.
August 8, 2012
The European Debt Crisis and the Dollar Funding Gap
Against the backdrop of the ongoing debt crisis in Europe, the difficulties faced by European banks in borrowing U.S. dollars have attracted increased attention.
Posted at 7:00 am in Banks, Exchange Rates, Fed Funds, International Economics, Liquidity | Permalink | Comments (2)
July 23, 2012
A Principle for Forward‑Looking Monitoring of Financial Intermediation: Follow the Banks!
In the previous posts in this series on the evolution of banks and financial intermediaries, my colleagues and I considered the extent to which banks still play a central role in financial intermediation, given the rise of the shadow banking system.
Posted at 7:02 am in Banks, Financial Institutions, Financial Intermediation, Regulation | Permalink | Comments (1)
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