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Economies of Scale and Their Implications for the Viability of Large Financial Firms

Tuesday, 14 October 2014: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Chair:
Julapa Jagtiani, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia—USA
Organizers:
Christine M. Cumming, Rutgers University—USA

Joseph P. Hughes, Rutgers University—USA
The social costs and benefits of TBTF banks; A bounding exercise
John Boyd, University of Minnesota—USA; Amanda Heitz, University of Minnesota—USA
Bank size and systemic risk
Lev Ratnovski, International Monetary Fund—USA; Luc Laeven, International Monetary Fund—USA; Hui Tong, International Monetary Fund—USA
Do big banks have lower operating costs?
Anna Kovner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York—USA; James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of New York—USA; Lily Zhou, Federal Reserve Bank of New York—USA
Discussant:
William Lang, Promontory Financial Group—USA