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Econ Focus

Second Quarter 2011

Federal Reserve

Sifting for SIFIs

Related Links

Elliott, Douglas J. and Robert E. Litan. "Identifying and Regulating Systemically Important Financial Institutions: The Risks of Under and Over Identification and Regulation." Brookings Policy Brief, Jan. 16, 2011.

Malysheva, Nadezhda and John R. Walter. "How Large Has the Federal Financial Safety Net Become?" Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly, 2010, vol. 96, no. 3, pp. 273-290.

Price, David A. and John R. Walter. "Identifying Systemically Important Financial Institutions." Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Brief, April 2011.

Tarullo, Daniel K. "Regulating Systemically Important Financial Firms." Speech at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., June 3, 2011.

Thomson, James B. "On Systematically Important Financial Institutions and Progressive Systemic Mitigation." Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Policy Discussion Paper No. 27, August 2009.

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David A. Price (804) 697-8018