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Resources

Exercises

  • Exercise 1: Transformation of bank balance sheet composition.
  • Exercise 2: Evolution of SIBs’ funding cost advantages.

Videos

  • Too big to fail: lessons from a decade of financial sector reforms

Figures

  • Figure 1: The economics of TBTF.
  • Figure 2: Barclays Bank’s published balance sheets for 2006, 2013, and 2020 in £m.
  • Figure 3: Number of SIBs by jurisdiction as at end 2018.
  • Figure 4: Evolution of risk-weighted and unweighted capital ratios for banks (%).
  • Figure 5: Market shares of the top three systemically important banks in gross loans.
  • Figure 6: Funding cost advantage of systemically important banks.
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      1. All CORE Insights
      2. List of resources
      3. 1 Introduction
      4. 2 The economics of TBTF
      5. 3 The economics of how to mitigate TBTF
      6. 4 Policy measures implemented after the crisis
      7. 5 Results of the evaluation of the TBTF reforms
      8. 6 Conclusion
      9. 7 Acknowledgements
      10. 8 References
      11. Glossary
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