Our Research Focus

Financial Regulation

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We study the impact of financial regulation on the financial sector and the broader economy. Our research covers a broad range of topics, including bank capital regulations, consumer regulations, and central bank lending. Our recent work has dealt with the size of the federal financial safety net, the influence of regulation on mortgage default rates, and bank runs.

To learn more about the safety net, which is supposed to protect large financial institutions and their creditors from failure and reduce "systemic risk" but may not do either, read the Richmond Fed's essay on the "too big to fail" problem in the "Our Perspective" series.

 
Issue Title Author(s)
Second Quarter 2011 Legal Protection to Foreign Investors Juan Carlos Hatchondo
Leonardo Martinez
First Quarter 2011 Mortgage Reform and the Countercyclical Role of the Federal Housing Administration's Mortgage Mutual Insurance Fund Brent C Smith
Third Quarter 2010 How Large Has the Federal Financial Safety Net Become? Nadezhda Malysheva
John R. Walter
First Quarter 2010 Introduction to the Special Issue on the Diamond-Dybvig Model Edward S. Prescott
First Quarter 2010 Bailouts Edward J. Green
First Quarter 2010 On the Fundamental Reasons for Bank Fragility Huberto M. Ennis
Todd Keister
First Quarter 2010 Inside-Money Theory after Diamond and Dybvig Ricardo de O. Cavalcanti
First Quarter 2010 Monetary Theory and Electronic Money: Reflections on the Kenyan Experience William Jack
Tavneet Suri
Robert Townsend
Fall 2009 Dynamic Provisioning: A Countercyclical Tool for Loan Loss Reserves. Eliana Balla
Andrew McKenna
Spring 2009 The Consolidation of Financial Regulation: Pros, Cons, and Implications for the United States Sabrina R. Pellerin
John R. Walter
Elizabeth Marshall
Spring 2009 Should Increased Regulation of Bank Risk-Taking Come from Regulators or from the Market? Robert L. Hetzel
Winter 2008 Should Bank Supervisors Disclose Information About Their Banks? Edward S. Prescott
Winter 2008 Antitrust Analysis in Banking: Goals, Methods, and Justifications in a Changed Environment John R. Walter
Elizabeth Marshall
Fall 2006 Changes in the Size Distribution of U. S. Banks: 1960 - 2005 Hubert P. Janicki
Edward S. Prescott
Spring 2006 Can Feedback from the Jumbo CD Market Improve Bank Surveillance? R. Alton Gilbert
Andrew P. Meyer
Mark D. Vaughan
Winter 2006 The 3-6-3 Rule: An Urban Myth? John R. Walter
Spring 2005 Bank Risk of Failure and the Too-Big-to-Fail Policy Huberto M. Ennis
H. S. Malek
Winter 2005 Depression-Era Bank Failures: The Great Contagion or the Great Shakeout? John R. Walter
Fall 2004 Auditing and Bank Capital Regulation Edward S. Prescott
Winter 2004 Closing Troubled Banks: How the Process Works John R. Walter
Summer 2003 Accounting for Corporate Behavior John A. Weinberg
Spring 2003 Banking and Commerce: Tear Down This Wall? John R. Walter
Fall 2002 Competition Among Bank Regulators John A. Weinberg
Summer 2002 The Economics of Financial Privacy: To Opt Out or Opt In? Jeffrey M. Lacker
Spring 2002 What Can Price Theory Say about the Community Reinvestment Act? John R. Walter
Robert L. Lacy
Spring 2002 Can Risk-Based Deposit Insurance Premiums Control Moral Hazard? Edward S. Prescott
Fall 2001 On the Size Distribution of Banks Huberto M. Ennis
Summer 2001 Regulating Bank Capital Structure to Control Risk Edward S. Prescott
Winter 1999 A Primer on Moral-Hazard Models Edward S. Prescott
Summer 1998 The Bank Merger Wave: Causes and Consequences J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr.
Winter 1998 Can a Safety Net Subsidy Be Contained? John R. Walter
Winter 1997 The Pre-Commitment Approach in a Model of Regulatory Banking Capital Edward S. Prescott
Fall 1996 Firewalls John R. Walter
Spring 1996 Tie-in Sales and Banks John A. Weinberg
Fall 1995 Derivatives Debacles: Case Studies of Large Losses in Derivatives Markets Anatoli Kuprianov
Fall 1994 Were Bank Examiners Too Strict with New England and California Banks? John R. Walter
Robert M. Darin
Spring 1994 Choices in Banking Policy J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr.
Issue Title Author(s)
1991 Too Big to Fail: Origins, Consequences, and Outlook Robert L. Hetzel
1991 Loan Loss Reserves John R. Walter
1991 Reflections on Deposit Insurance Robert P. Black
1990 The Case for Interstate Branch Banking David L. Mengle
1990 Reforming Deposit Insurance: Lessons from the Savings and Loan Crisis Michael Dotsey
Anatoli Kuprianov
1989 The Future of Deposit Insurance: An Analysis of the Alternatives Anatoli Kuprianov
David L. Mengle
1989 Banking Under Changing Rules: The Fifth District Since 1970 David L. Mengle
1988 International Risk-Based Capital Standard: History and Explanation Malcolm C. Alfriend
1987 A Review of Bank Performance in the Fifth District, 1986 David L. Mengle
John R. Walter
1985 The Rules versus Discretion Debate over Monetary Policy in the 1920s Robert L. Hetzel
1985 The Monetary Control Act and the Role of the Federal Reserve in the Interbank Clearing Market Anatoli Kuprianov
1984 A Review of Bank Performance in the Fifth District, 1983 F. Ward McCarthy, Jr.
1984 The Evolution of the Bank Regulatory Structure: A Reappraisal F. Ward McCarthy, Jr.
1979 A Summary of the International Banking Act of 1978 John P. Segala
1978 Regulation Q and the Behavior of Savings and Small Time Deposits at Commercial Banks and the Thrift Institutions Timothy Q. Cook
1977 Bank Capital Adequacy: Perspectives and Prospects Bruce J. Summers
1976 FDIC Policy Toward Bank Failures Walter A. Varvel
1975 The Classical Concept of the Lender of Last Resort Thomas M. Humphrey
Paper Title Author(s)
11-09
December 2011		 Loan Loss Reserves, Accounting Constraints, and Bank Ownership Structure Eliana Balla
Morgan J. Rose
11-07
November 2011		 Contingent Capital: The Trigger Problem Edward S. Prescott
11-05
September 2011		 Mortgage Defaults Juan Carlos Hatchondo
Leonardo Martinez
Juan M. Sanchez
11-01R
March 2011		 An Experimental Analysis of Contingent Capital Triggering Mechanisms (Revised Oct. 2011) Douglas Davis
Edward S. Prescott
Oleg Korenok
10-16
October 2010		 Optimal Bonuses and Deferred Pay for Bank Employees: Implications of Hidden Actions with Persistent Effects in Time Arantxa Jarque
Edward S. Prescott
10-10
May 2010		 Housing Default: Theory Works and So Does Policy Allen C. Goodman
Brent C Smith
09-11
August 2009		 Are Harsh Penalties for Default Really Better? Kartik B. Athreya
Xuan S. Tam
Eric R. Young
09-10R
July 2009		 Recourse and Residential Mortgage Default: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States (Revised: June 2010) Andra C. Ghent
Marianna Kudlyak
09-8
May 2009		 The Consolidation of Financial Market Regulation: Pros, Cons, and Implications for the United States Sabrina R. Pellerin
John R. Walter
Elizabeth Marshall
07-2
March 2007		 Bank Runs and Institutions: The Perils of Intervention Huberto M. Ennis
Todd Keister
06-12
November 2006		 Market-Based Regulation and the Informational Content of Prices Philip Bond
Itay Goldstein
Edward S. Prescott
05-5
July 2005		 Should the FDIC Worry about the FHLB? The Impact of Federal Home Loan Bank Advances on the Bank Insurance Fund Rosalind L. Bennett
Mark D. Vaughan
Timothy J. Yeager
04-3
March 2004		 Bank Runs and Investment Decisions Revisited Huberto M. Ennis
Todd Keister
04-2
February 2004		 State-Contingent Bank Regulation With Unobserved Actions and Unobserved Characteristics David A. Marshall
Edward S. Prescott
02-1
September 2002		 The Macroeconomics of U.S. Consumer Bankruptcy Choice: Chapter 7 or Chapter 13? Wenli Li
Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte
99-2
March 1999		 Limited Commitment and Central Bank Lending Marvin Goodfriend
Jeffrey M. Lacker
90-5
June 1990		 Costs and Technical Change: Effects from Bank Deregulation David B. Humphrey
89-4
October 1989		 The Feasibility of Market Value Accounting for Commercial Banks David L. Mengle
88-2
May 1988		 Legal and Regulatory Reform in Electronic Payments: An Evaluation of Finality of Payment Rules David L. Mengle
88-1
April 1988		 Financial Deregulation, Monetary Policy, and Central Banking Marvin Goodfriend
Robert G. King
87-4
October 1987		 The Economic Effects of Corporate Taxes in a Stochastic Growth Model Michael Dotsey
76-1
July 1976		 Bank Management, Competition, and Interest Rates: A Portfolio Model of Discount Window Activity William D. Jackson
74-5
September 1974		 Commercial Banking Performance and Structure: A Factor Analysis Approach William D. Jackson
73-1
May 1973		 Simulations of Marginal Reserve Requirements on Large Denomination Certificates of Deposit in the FRB Model Philip H. Davidson