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Too-big-to-fail after FDICIA

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This reprint of a 1993 article outlines what Congress intended the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to accomplish. A new preface discusses FDICIA's successes and failures as well as research calling for clearer policies to deal with the problem of \"too big to fail\" banks.

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  • Larry D. Wall, 2010. "Too-big-to-fail after FDICIA," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, vol. 95(1).
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedaer:y:2010:n:v.95no.1
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