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What Are the Characteristics of Banks with Large Unrealized Losses?
An analysis suggests banks with significant exposure to unrealized bond losses rely more on deposits, hold less-liquid assets and have smaller capital buffers.
Discussion Paper
Economic Capital: A New Measure of Bank Solvency
Bank supervisors, industry analysts, and academic researchers rely on a range of metrics to track the health of both individual banks and the banking system as a whole. Many of these metrics focus on bank solvency—the likelihood that a bank will be able to repay its obligations and thus retain its funding and continue to supply services to consumers, businesses, and other financial institutions. We draw on our recent research to describe a new solvency metric that is more forward-looking, more timely, and more comprehensive in its assessment of solvency than many current measures.
Journal Article
Interest Rate Risk, Bank Runs and Silicon Valley Bank
An analysis explains some of the causes and consequences of bank runs, as well as policies that help safeguard banks’ solvency.
Discussion Paper
Economic Capital: A Better Measure of Bank Failure?
Bank failures and distress can be costly to the economy, causing losses to creditors and reducing the flow of credit and other financial intermediation services. Thus, there is significant value in being able to identify “at risk” banks in a timely and accurate way. In a previous post, we presented a new solvency metric, Economic Capital, and showed how solvency risks in the U.S. banking industry have evolved over time according to this measure. In this post, we continue to draw on our recent Staff Report to present analysis showing that Economic Capital identifies failing banks earlier ...