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...

Bank holding companies (BHCs) can be complex organizations, conducting multiple lines of business through many distinct legal entities and across a range of geographies. While such complexity raises the costs of bank resolution when organizations fail, the effect of complexity on BHCs' broader...