Month July 2024

The Icelandic and Irish Banking Crises

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The Icelandic and Irish Banking Crises Alternative Paths to a Credit-Induced Collapse Central banks set the stage for financial collapse through excessive credit expansion, but a lax monetary policy isn’t the only way that policymakers can foster a meltdown. As…

Fractional Reserves and Demand Deposits

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Fractional Reserves and Demand Deposits Historical Evidence from an Unregulated Banking System Would banks operating under laissez faire adopt a 100 percent reserve ratio or a fractional-reserve rule that would allow them to affect the money supply? The Chettiar banking…

We Are Not Macroprudentialists

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We Are Not Macroprudentialists A Skeptical View of Prudential Regulation to Deal with Systemic Externalities The 2008 financial crisis is widely touted as supporting the case for more bank regulation and taxation to deal with “systemic” risk. This claim, however,…