A key rationale offered by the Federal Reserve for the payment of interest on reserves was to remove the incentive for banks to operate sweep accounts. Sweeping shifts funds from transactions deposits subject to reserve requirements to non-reservable deposits. This paper extends a conventional...

The Basel III standards include a liquidity-coverage-ratio (LCR) constraint that creates an intertemporal link between contemporaneous bank balance-sheet choices and lagged deposits. Assessing the effects of an LCR constraint for banks’ optimal deposit and loan choices requires an...

We propose a theory of 'regulatory endogenous sunk costs'(RESC), in which a captured regulator raises minimum quality standards when market size increases in order to protect incumbent firms. Our RESC theory's predictions that market size is unrelated to industry concentration and positively...