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Too big to fail: the pros and cons of breaking up big banks

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Many people want to put size limits on ?too big to fail? banks, given their risks to the broader economy. Such limits, however, could raise the cost of providing banking services by preventing banks from exploiting economies of scale.

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  • David C. Wheelock, 2012. "Too big to fail: the pros and cons of breaking up big banks," The Regional Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, issue Oct, pages 10-11.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedlre:y:2012:i:oct:p:10-11
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    1. Kristin Regehr & Rajdeep Sengupta, 2016. "Has the Relationship between Bank Size and Profitability Changed?," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, issue Q II, pages 49-72.
    2. Wang, Haibo, 2024. "Assessing resilience to systemic risks across interbank credit networks using linkage-leverage analysis: Evidence from Japan," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    3. Uluc Aysun, 2013. "Bank size and macroeconomic shock transmission: Are there economic volatility gains from shrinking large, too big to fail banks?," Working Papers 2013-02, University of Central Florida, Department of Economics.
    4. von der Becke Susanne & Sornette Didier, 2019. "An Asset-Based Framework of Credit Creation (applied to the Global Financial Crisis)," Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium, De Gruyter, vol. 9(2), pages 1-21, July.
    5. Aysun, Uluc, 2016. "Bank size and macroeconomic shock transmission: Does the credit channel operate through large or small banks?," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 117-139.
    6. Hazera, Alejandro & Quirvan, Carmen & Triki, Anis, 2017. "Too big to fail and bank loan accounting in developing nations: Evidence from the Mexican financial crisis," Research in Accounting Regulation, Elsevier, vol. 29(2), pages 109-118.

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