The Changing Face of American Banking

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2. A Brief Chronology of U.S. Banking Regulations

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3. The Free Banking Era

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4. The Big Markets: New York and California

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5. The Little Markets: The Story of Unit Banks

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6. The Early Days of the Federal Reserve

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7. The Great Depression and the Glass-Steagall Act

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8. The Stable Years

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9. The Housing Market and the Savings and Loan Associations Crisis: The 1980s

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10. Deregulation and the Great Recession: The 1990s and the 2000s

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11. Reregulation: The Response to the Financial Crisis

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12. Wall Street and Main Street: Banking Regulations and the Real Economy

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13. U.S. Banks and the Global Financial System

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14. The Road Ahead

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15. Back Matter

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With almost 6,300 commercial banks, significantly more than in any other country, the world of US banking is unique, fascinating, and always in flux. Two principal pieces of legislation have shaped the banking structure in this country: The McFadden Act of 1927, which prohibited banks from branching into other states, and The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which separated commercial and investment banking activities. The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 was one of the main contributing factors behind the global financial crisis of 2008. This measure resulted in the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which once again prohibited commercial banks from making certain types of speculative investments. The Changing Face of American Banking analyzes the impact of both these acts - as well as that of their subsequent repeal - in depth, examining the real effects of government regulations on the US commercial banking sector. Ray Chaudhuri pinpoints the evolving nature of US commercial banks and banking regulations and explores their impact on the economy. Instead of just focusing on banks and regulations, this work considers the correlations and causality between banking performance and economic growth and productivity. It also brings the banking literature up to date with the 2008-2009 financial crisis and its aftermath, including the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and its effect on American banking.

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• banking
• Banking Industry
• consumer
• depression
• fiscal policy
• growth
• interest rates
• monetary policy
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• The Ohio State University, USA

  Ranajoy Ray Chaudhuri

Ranajoy Ray Chaudhuri is Lecturer int the Economics Department at The Ohio State University, USA.

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