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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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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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Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry : Early Evidence from Open Banking
Babina, Tania; Bahaj, Saleem; Buchak, Greg; De Marco, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Open banking (OB) empowers bank customers to share transaction data with fintechs and other banks. 49 countries have adopted OB policies. Consumer trust in fintechs predicts OB policy adoption and adoption spurs investment in fintechs. UK microdata shows that OB enables: i) consumers to access...
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Cryptocurrencies and Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Makarov, Igor; Schoar, Antoinette - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The paper provides an overview of cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance. The discussion lays out potential benefits and challenges of the new system and presents a comparison to the traditional system of financial intermediation. Our analysis highlights that while the DeFi architecture...
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The FinTech Opportunity
Philippon, Thomas - 2016
This paper assesses the potential impact of FinTech on the finance industry, focusing on financial stability and access to services. I document first that financial services remain surprisingly expensive, which explains the emergence of new entrants. I then argue that the current regulatory...
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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250 …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470321
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Risk and Global Economic Architecture : Why Full Financial Integration May Be Undesirable
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2010
simplistic models arguing for financial integration typically employed in economics assume convexity; but the world is rife with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462933
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Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Contagion
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2009
Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First, more than half of the rise in net borrowing of the U.S. nonfinancial sectors since the mid 1980s has been financed by foreign lending. Second, the collapse of the U.S. housing...
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