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

In: DODD–FRANK WALL STREET REFORM AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT Purpose, Critique, Implementation Status and Policy Issues

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

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…

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  • Barney Frank & The Minority Staff of the House Financial Services Committee, 2014. "The Financial Crisis and “Too-Big-To-Fail”," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Douglas D Evanoff & William F Moeller (ed.), DODD–FRANK WALL STREET REFORM AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT Purpose, Critique, Implementation Status and Policy Issues, chapter 17, pages 281-294, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814590044_0017
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    Keywords

    Dodd-Frank; Financial Regulation; Macroprudential Regulation; Systemic Risk; Volcker Rule; Resolution Authority; Consumer Protection; Central Clearinghouses (CCPs) ;
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    JEL classification:

    • N2 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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