Summary: Chapter 1

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  • 4 FIs' specialness

  • Without FIs: Low level of fund flows

    - information costs: economies of scale reduce costs for FIs to screen and monitor borrowers
    - less liquidity
    - substantial price risk
  • 7 Role of FIs in cost reduction

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  • Information costs: investors exposed to agency costs

    FI as an information producer
    - shorter term debt contracts easier to monitor than bonds
    - greater monitoring power and control
    - acting as delegated monitor, FIs reduce information asymmetry between borrowers and lenders
  • 8 Specialness of FIs

  • Liquidity and price risk 1

    secondary claims issued by FIs have less price risk
  • Liquidity and price risk 2

    demand deposits and other claims are more liquid
    - more attractive to small investors
  • Liquidity and price risk 3

    FIs have advantage in diversifying risks
  • 10 Specialness and regulation

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  • FIs receive special regulatory attention

    to ensure soundness of the overall system
  • 11 Safety and soundness

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  • Safety and soundness regulation 1

    regulations to increase diversification
    - no more than 10 percent of equity to single borrower
  • Safety and soundness regulation 3

    guaranty funds
  • Safety and soundness regulation 4

    monitoring and surveillance
    - on-site and off-site
  • 12 Regulation + 13 14

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  • investor protection regulation

    protections against abuses such as insider trading, lack of disclosure
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