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The failure of Northern Rock : a multi-dimensional case study

Bruni, Franco (ed.); Llewellyn, David T. (ed.) - 2009

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...

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Crisis management at cross-roads : challenges facing cross-border financial institutions at the EU level : a joint publication with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Ayadi, Rym (ed.); Lierman, Frank (ed.); Balling, Morten (ed.) - Conference "Crisis Management at Cross-Roads" <2009, …; … - 2010

On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.

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The Saving and Loan Insolvencies and the Costs of Financial Crises

Field, Alexander J. - 2016

At the time they occurred, the savings and loan insolvencies were considered the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Contrary to what was then believed, and in sharp contrast with 2007-09, they in fact had little macroeconomic significance. S&L remediation cost between 2 and 3...

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Securitization, Deregulation, Economic Stability, And Financial Crisis, Part II - Deregulation, the Financial Crisis, and Policy Implications

Tymoigne, Eric - 2009

This study analyzes the trends in the financial sector over the past 30 years, and argues that unsupervised financial innovations and lenient government regulation are at the root of the current financial crisis and recession. Combined with a long period of economic expansion during which...

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Why Supervise Banks? The Foundations of the American Monetary Settlement

Menand, Lev - 2020

The federal banking agencies—the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation—supervise. They work cooperatively with banks and their remedial powers are so extensive they rarely use them. Oversight is designed to proceed through...

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Financial Stability, Monetary Policy, Banking Supervision, and Central Banking

Hellwig, Martin F. - 2014

The paper gives an overview over issues concerning the role of financial stability in monetary policy and the relation between banking supervision and central banking. Following a brief account of developments in the European Monetary Union since its creation, the systematic treatment contains...

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Banks, politics and European Monetary Union

Hellwig, Martin - 2019

This contribution to the panel on the future to EMU discusses the tensions that arise from the fact that banks are, on the one hand, an essential element of the monetary transmission mechanism and, on the other hand, an integral part of local, regional or national polities. Banking union can...

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Cournot fire sales

Eisenbach, Thomas M.; Phelan, Gregory - 2018

illiquid assets or underprovision of liquidity. We investigate whether imperfect competition (Cournot) improves welfare through … internalizing the externality and find that this is far from guaranteed. In a standard model of liquidity shocks, when liquidity is … sufficiently scarce, Cournot competition leads to even less liquidity than the Walrasian equilibrium. In a standard model of …

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Credit risk transfer and de facto GSE reform

Finkelstein, David L.; Strzodka, Andreas; Vickery, James - 2018

disrupting the liquidity or stability of mortgage secondary markets. In the process, the programs have created a new financial … market for pricing and trading mortgage credit risk, which has grown in size and liquidity over time. The CRT programs …

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Shadow banking : financial intermediation beyond banks

Adrian, Tobias; Chrétien, Edouard; Chui, Michael; … - Shadow Banking: Financial Intermediation beyond Banks …; … - 2018

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