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Banking Trends: Where Depositors Fear to Tread

Economic Insights — What should policymakers do when depositors flee banks, as they did after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 2023? Much depends on how banks create liquidity.

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Measuring Climate Transition Risk at the Regional Level with an Application to Community Banks

WP 25-11 – We base our measure of U.S. climate transition risk on an estimate of an emissions tax’s effect on firm value, aggregated to the region. The size and geographic concentration of the effect depend on the tax’s pass-through to prices.

Mortgage-Backed Securities

WP 25-10 – This paper provides a review of the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market, the ultimate source of financing for most housing purchases in the United States, and one of the largest and most liquid financial markets in the world.

Sequential Search for Corporate Bonds

WP 25-08 – We study the magnitude and sources of trading delays in over-the-counter financial markets using a new data set that contains a complete record of all inquiries — successful and not — made on the leading electronic platform for corporate bonds.

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Institutions in the Third District

This interactive tool summarizes information about banks and holding companies within the Third District (comprising eastern and central Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware) and provides each institution’s location and asset size as of the most recent quarter.

Updated: 13 Feb ’25

Map of the Third Federal Reserve District

Third District Banking Conditions

Third District Banking Conditions is a semiannual report comparing the trends of Third District community banks with their national peers.

Updated: 10 Mar ’25

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Large Bank Credit Card and Mortgage Data

The Large Bank Consumer Credit Data are based on Y-14M credit card and mortgage data provided by the largest financial institutions in the United States.

Updated: 09 Apr ’25