By Sean Vanatta In a 1991 article in the American Economic Review, Lawrence Ausubel posed a question: Why had competition failed in the credit card market? Credit card interest rates had surged in the early 1980s following Fed Chairman Paul Volcker’s dramatic bit to purge inflation, but as market interest…Read More
On Friday, April 19, the Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation (WIFPR) co-hosted a conference with Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy on “Rethinking Optimal Deposit Insurance.” The conference was organized by Itay Goldstein, WIFPR director and Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor of Finance at Wharton, and Eduardo Davila,…Read More 
The WIFPR Blog publishes posts spotlighting research by members of the Wharton community. In this post, Anna Helmke, PhD candidate in Finance, discusses her work on ETFs and mutual funds. By Anna Helmke The rise of passive investing has been nothing short of revolutionary. At the heart of this phenomenon…Read More
Note: this post is part of our series on Basel III Endgame, which features contributions from participants at our Basel III Endgame roundtable. You can find other posts in the series here. By Viral V Acharya “Basel III Endgame” is a set of rules proposed by the US regulatory authorities,…Read More
September 18, 2023 This post summarizes key takeaways from a September roundtable on digital currencies. Chair Sarah Hammer, Executive Director at the Wharton School and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Speakers Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore Tara Rice, Head of Secretariat, Committee…Read More
Note: this post is part of our series on Basel III Endgame, which features contributions from participants at our Basel III Endgame roundtable. You can find other posts in the series here. By David Zaring On November 7, 2023, the Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation (WIFPR) convened a…Read More
Note: this post is part of our series on Basel III Endgame, which features contributions from participants at our Basel III Endgame roundtable. You can find other posts in the series here. By Tomasz Piskorski Summary The 2023 bank failures underscore the fundamental issue of banking vulnerability rooted in the…Read More
On Tuesday, November 7, 2024, the Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation (WIFPR) hosted a roundtable on Basel III Endgame. The roundtable convened two dozen academic, industry, and policy experts to discuss the proposed rule by the federal banking agencies (Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of…Read More
