In September 2008, the US government placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship and entered into preferred stock purchase agreements with each. Since that time, these two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) have received $148 billion in taxpayer-injected equity. By contrast, the...

A seldom discussed part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) is how the deposit insurance assessment alteration impacted different types of banks. We provide details of the reform and investigate the effects on the banking industry. The DFA called for an expansion of the assessment base used to...

A seldom discussed part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) is how the deposit insurance assessment alteration impacted different types of banks. We provide details of the reform and investigate the effects on the banking industry. The DFA called for an expansion of the assessment base used to...