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Did Banking Reforms of the Early 1990s Fail? Lessons From Comparing Two Banking Crises, No. 15-06

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Did Banking Reforms of the Early 1990s Fail? Lessons From Comparing Two Banking Crises, No. 15-06

DATE: June 2015

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ABSTRACT: New Richmond Fed research on community and midsize banks evaluates the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA) and Basel I by comparing failures in the 1986-92 period to those in 2007-13. Banks greatly increased commercial real estate lending between the two banking crises, but higher capital mitigated this risk. Failure rates in the recent crisis were mainly driven by the severity of the economic shocks. However, higher capital did not help contain FDIC losses, which were much larger in the recent crisis. One possible explanation is limitations in the accounting triggers used by FDICIA's prompt corrective action requirement.

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Balla, Eliana , Fessenden, Helen , Prescott, Edward Simpson , Walter, John R. and Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. "Did Banking Reforms of the Early 1990s Fail? Lessons From Comparing Two Banking Crises, No. 15-06," Economic Brief (June 2015). https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/6034/item/583937, accessed on May 30, 2023.

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