home | about IDEAs | contact | archives  
Search
 
Featured Articles
Some Observations on How to Deal with the Problem of ''Too big to fail/save/resolve''
Jan Kregel

The current approach to the financial crisis, of resolving small and medium size banks through the FDIC while giving direct and indirect government support to the banks that are considered too large to be wound up, has created an even smaller number of even larger banks. However, there are at least three separate problems associated with bank size that suggest that this approach may not reduce the systemic risks of large financial institutions that contributed to the current crisis.

 

Janurary 4, 2010.

 
This Document is in Adobe
Acrobat format and would
need a PDF reader to
view it.
View/ Download the
full text in PDF format
if you have problem
opening the file, right click
on hyperlink and select "SaveTarget as" to save
the file on your hard drive.
Size: 100 KB
App. Download Time:  
1 min @ 28kbps
 
Click below to get Adobe
Acrobat Reader, a free software to view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
 
 
 
  © International Development
Economics Associates 2010
 

Best viewed on Internet Explorer 6 & Netscape Navigator 6 and above