This paper focuses on the financing of banking supervision. Countries are classified according to who finances banking supervision the tax payer and/or the supervised industry -, and how the budget and fees are determined. We show that funding regimes differ across countries. Public funding is...

Following Eijffinger and Geraats (2006), we construct an index of transparency of banking supervisors that takes political, economic, procedural, policy and operational transparency into account. Based on a survey, we construct the index for 24 banking supervisors. There are large differences...

What does the general public know about banking supervision? What objectives does the public think bank supervisors should pursue? We investigate these issues using a survey among Dutch households. First, we find that the public's knowledge about banking supervision is far from perfect. We also...

ALaffer curve has existed in the international corporate tax sphere since the 1980s.

The authorsanalyze the best available economic data and conclude that American consumers--particularly the less affluent--have benefited tremendously from Wal-Mart's "everyday low prices."

This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.

Key economists for the government and for the Microsoft Corporation lay out their views on the key issues and then respond to the views presented by the opposing side.