Chapter 10: Q. 11 (page 283)
How does bank chartering reduce adverse selection problems? Does it always work?
Short Answer
By offering screening proposals to new banks, bank chartering eliminates adverse selection difficulties.
Chapter 10: Q. 11 (page 283)
How does bank chartering reduce adverse selection problems? Does it always work?
By offering screening proposals to new banks, bank chartering eliminates adverse selection difficulties.
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Get started for freeOldhat Financial starts its first day of operations with \(million in the capital. A total of \)million in checkable deposits are received. The bank makes a \(million commercial loan and another \)million in mortgages with the following terms: standard, -year, fixed-rate mortgages with a nominal annual rate of , each for $. Assume that required reserves are .
a. What does the bank balance sheet look like?
b. How well capitalized is the bank?
c. Calculate the risk-weighted assets and risk-weighted capital ratio after Oldhat’s first day.
Would you recommend the adoption of a system of deposit insurance, like the FDIC in the United States, in a country with weak institutions, prevalent corruption, and ineffective regulation of the financial sector?
Why are deposit insurance and other types of government safety nets important to the health of the economy?
Why has the trend in bank supervision moved away from a focus on capital requirements to a focus on risk management?
Go to the St. Louis Federal Reserve FRED database, and find data on the number of commercial banks in the United States in each of the following categories: average assets less than \(100 million (US100NUM), average assets between \)100 million and \(300 million (US13NUM), average assets between \)300 million and \(1 billion (US31NUM), average assets between \)1 billion and \(15 billion (US115NUM), and average assets greater than \)15 billion (USG15NUM). Download the data into a spreadsheet. Calculate the percentage of banks in the smallest (less than \(100 million) and largest (greater than \)15 billion) categories, as a percentage of the total number of banks, for the most recent quarter of data available and for 1990:Q1. What has happened to the proportion of very large banks? What has happened to the proportion of very small banks? What does this say about the “too-big-to-fail” problem and moral hazard?
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