The Financial Crisis and “Too-Big-To-Fail”

Barney Frank and The Minority Staff of the House Financial Services Committee

Chapter 17 in Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act:Purpose, Critique, Implementation Status and Policy Issues, 2014, pp 281-294 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: At the height of the financial crisis in 2008, the Bush administration believed that it was forced to choose between doing two unprecedented and undesirable things: propping up large failing financial companies at taxpayer risk on the one hand, or on the other permitting such companies to go through bankruptcy, with potentially catastrophic results for an already weak financial system…

Keywords: Dodd-Frank; Financial Regulation; Macroprudential Regulation; Systemic Risk; Volcker Rule; Resolution Authority; Consumer Protection; Central Clearinghouses (CCPs) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G18 N2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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