Instead of being « too big to fail », have big banks become « too big to succeed » ?

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Supervisors

Peirce, Robert

Faculty

Louvain School of Management

Degree label

Master [120] en sciences de gestion

Abstract

In the light of the different financial crisis, there has been much debate about the role of banks in our society, and whether these should be further regulated to limit their size and interconnectedness. This paper aims at exploring the limits of growth for banks, in order to understand if the value they create for the different stakeholders support and justify their size. Instead of being too big to fail, the objective is to understand whether large banks have become too big to succeed.