"This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...

Die internationale Finanzmarktkrise hat Kritikern der Marktwirtschaft Auftrieb gegeben. Eine umfassende Regulierung der Finanzmärkte erscheint Vielen als das ordnungspolitische Gebot der Stunde. In der Tat ist es für die Stabilität von Zahlungs- und Kreditbeziehungen in der Marktwirtschaft...

Die globale Finanz- und Schuldenkrise hat zu hohen fiskalischen Kosten und erheblichen volkswirtschaftlichen Verwerfungen in Europa geführt. Zu instabil und komplex ist das international verwobene Finanzsystem, zu stark der finanzielle Nexus zwischen Staaten und Banken. Vor diesem Hintergrund...

Banks are in the business of taking calculated risks. Expanding the geographic footprint of an organization's profit-making activities changes the geographic pattern of its exposure to loss in ways that are hard for regulators and supervisors to observe. This paper tests and confirms the...

This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...

Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating financial institutions. Altruistic public-benefits theories treat rules as governmental instruments for increas- ing fairness and efficiency across society as a whole....

This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...