Keyword: bank regulation

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Big Banks

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statements: A: The U.S government should make further efforts to shrink the size of the country's largest banks — such as by capping the size of their liabilities or penalizing large banks more heavily through taxes or other means — because the existing regulations do not require the biggest banks to internalize enough of the "too-big-to-fail" risks that they pose. B: The economic benefits to the U.S. of having a handful of banks with balance sheets greater than $1 trillion are small.
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Too Big to Fail

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel poll statements: A) The average size of the 19 financial firms that just completed the Federal Reserve stress tests (i.e. the CCAR) would be substantially smaller if they did not have implicit government support. B) The 19 financial firms that just completed the Federal Reserve stress tests (i.e. the CCAR) are big primarily because of economies of scale and scope, rather than because of implicit government support.
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Bank Bailouts

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel poll statement: Because the U.S. Treasury bailed out and backstopped banks (by injecting equity into them in late 2008, and later committing to provide public capital to any banks that failed the stress tests and could not raise private capital), the U.S. unemployment rate was lower at the end of 2010 than it would have been without these measures.