Too Many Banks to Fail? Theory and Evidence

Boyd John () and Baxamusa Mufaddal
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Boyd John: Banking Industry of Minnesota Chair, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Baxamusa Mufaddal: Opus College of Business at the University of St Thomas, Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA

The Economists' Voice, 2013, vol. 10, issue 1, 7-13

Abstract: “Too Many to Fail” suggests that small and medium sized banks can cause a banking crisis if a large number of them fail simultaneously. We disagree and show that the fundamental cause of systemic banking crises is “Too Big to Fail” banks.

Keywords: Banking crisis; too many to fail (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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