Financial Regulation

News and Commentary How risky are Bank Holding Companies (BHC) today? A new blog post at Liberty Street Economics investigates this question while looking at BHCs and finds similar trends [...]

New Research A new NBER paper examines the role of leverage in an economy, modeling out the theory of how assets can function as collateral. They find assets used as [...]

News and Commentary Listen to Cato's Diego Zuluaga discuss banking consolidation.   New Research A paper at the Centre for Economic Policy Research analyzes Switzerland's extra capital requirements and the [...]

News and Commentary Jonathan Kirshner in The Washington Post reviews the late Paul Volcker's views and influence on financial regulation. Volcker is perhaps best known for his views on inflation, [...]

News and Commentary Paul Volcker passed away this week at the age of 92. While he is most famous now for (among other things) the Volcker Rule, it is also [...]

News and Commentary A column from VoxEU examines the role of liquidity, as opposed to capital, requirements in macroprudential policy. While liquidity requirements are traditionally viewed in the context of [...]

News and Commentary To become private again, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have to raise $180 billion in capital.  A hefty requirement meant to ensure the pair stay financially [...]

News and Commentary Increasingly loans are being issued from so-called shadow banks, institutions that are not regulated like banks but still have long term assets and short term liabilities.  This [...]