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Dealer banks--that is, large banks that deal in securities and derivatives, such as J. P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs--are of a size and complexity that sharply distinguish them from typical commercial banks. When they fail, as we saw in the global financial crisis, they pose significant risks to our financial system and the world economy. How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It examines how these banks collapse and how we can prevent the need to bail them out.
In sharp, clinical detail, Darrell Duffie walks readers step-by-step through the mechanics of large-bank failures. He identifies where the cracks first appear when a dealer bank is weakened by severe trading losses, and demonstrates how the bank's relationships with its customers and business partners abruptly change when its solvency is threatened. As others seek to reduce their exposure to the dealer bank, the bank is forced to signal its strength by using up its slim stock of remaining liquid capital. Duffie shows how the key mechanisms in a dealer bank's collapse--such as Lehman Brothers' failure in 2008--derive from special institutional frameworks and regulations that influence the flight of short-term secured creditors, hedge-fund clients, derivatives counterparties, and most devastatingly, the loss of clearing and settlement services.
How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It reveals why today's regulatory and institutional frameworks for mitigating large-bank failures don't address the special risks to our financial system that are posed by dealer banks, and outlines the improvements in regulations and market institutions that are needed to address these systemic risks.

"In How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It, Darrell Duffie tackles one of the central but often neglected issues in building a more resilient financial system. Duffie has that rare combination--the rigor of the academy and knowledge of how the plumbing of the financial system works. Anyone interested in regulatory reform will need to engage with his thinking."--Paul Tucker, deputy governor, financial stability, Bank of England

"The book does an excellent job of explaining the institutional setting of big dealer banks and how things went wrong in the financial crisis. The issues are important and the policy suggestions sound. There is nothing quite like this out there."--Franklin Allen, University of Pennsylvania

"Darrell Duffie is one of the leading experts on the problem of large-bank failures. He focuses on issues not addressed elsewhere, but which are being talked about everywhere. This book scores in a big way."--Viral V. Acharya, New York University

Darrell Duffie

James Darrell Duffie is a Canadian economist. He is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and has been on the finance faculty at Stanford since receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1984. He has authored books and research articles on topics in finance and related fields. He is the author of Futures Markets, Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory and Credit Risk, with Kenneth Singleton.

Dr. Duffie is a trustee of iShares Trust, and is a director of iShares, Inc. (2008-present), a family of Exchange Traded Funds from Barclays Global Investors, and as a result oversees a total of approximately 200 funds within the fund complex. Dr. Duffie is also a member of The Federal Reserve Bank of New York Financial Advisory Roundtable, the Banff International Research Station Scientific Advisory Board, the Board of The Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences, is a Fellow and member of the Council of the Econometric Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Duffie is a member of the Executive Committee and was the President of the American Finance Association in 2009.