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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 1997
Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating … arise in multi- party relationships and that regulation introduces opportunities to impose rules that enhance the welfare of … discretion and choose actions for the common good. Agency-cost theories portray regulation as a way to raise the quality of …
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Durable Financial Regulation : Monitoring Financial Instruments as a Counterpart to Regulating Financial Institutions
Nakamura, Leonard - 2011
This paper sets forth a discussion framework for the information requirements of systemic financial regulation. It …
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Optimal Regulation of Financial Intermediaries
Tella, Sebastian Di - 2017
I characterize the optimal financial regulation policy in an economy where financial intermediaries trade capital … assets on behalf of households, but must retain an equity stake to align incentives. Financial regulation is necessary …
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Using Deferred Compensation to Strengthen the Ethicsof Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 2001
Defects in the corporate governance of government-owned enterprises tempt opportunistic officials to breach duties of public stewardship. Corporate-governance theory suggests that incentive-based deferred compensation could intensify the force that common-law duties actually exert on regulatory...
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Regulations, Market Structure, Institutions, and the Cost of Financial Intermediation
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2003
This paper examines the impact of bank regulations, market structure, and national institutions on bank net interest margins and overhead costs using data on over 1,400 banks across 72 countries while controlling for bank-specific characteristics. The data indicate that tighter regulations on...
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Regulation and Supervision : An Ethical Perspective
Kane, Edward J. - 2008
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...
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Financial Innovation and the Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions
Merton, Robert C. - 1995
New security designs, improvements in computer telecommunications technology and advances in the theory of finance have led to revolutionary changes in the structure of financial markets and institutions. This paper provides a functional perspective on the dynamics of institutional change and...
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Regulating Internalities
Allcott, Hunt - 2015
This paper offers a framework for regulating internalities. Using a simple economic model, we provide four principles for designing and evaluating behaviorally-motivated policy. We then outline rules for determining which contexts reliably reflect true preferences and discuss empirical...
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Financial Openness and Productivity
Bekaert, Geert - 2009
factor productivity growth is more important than the effect on capital growth. This explains why the growth effects of … that are more financially developed or have higher quality of institutions experience larger productivity growth responses …
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2008
productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … growth, far less attention has been paid to its effects on productivity growth. We provide a comprehensive analysis of the … relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various …
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