This paper surveys the regulatory response to the global financial crisis with an emphasis on the regulation of the proprietary trading by banks with the speculative investment instruments. We discuss not only changes in the US regulation, but we also focus on the implementation of the Vickers...

A dozen years ago, Randall Kroszner, soon to be one of George W. Bush’s economic advisors and a Governor of the Federal Reserve, could comment in a Levy Institute seminar, without fear of contradiction, that there was no evidence to back the "public interest rationale" for the separation of...

This is the first article in a series which explores the changing role of banks in the financial intermediation process. It accompanies a Liberty Street Blog series. Both discuss the complexity of the credit intermediation chain associated with securitization and note the growing participation...

Purpose Using data on 5,491 commercial banks in the USA that were operational between 2001 second quarter and 2016 first quarter, the present study aims to examine the impact of derivative securities and its different constituent categories on bank-specific risks and profitability....

This study sets out to explore the relationships between the banking and night-industry types of nonbanking sectors of the G8 over the years of 1994-2004—before the Kyoto Protocol was enacted in 2005. Our findings show that these relationships are still conditional upon the financial...