This chapter discusses the basis for and concepts of implementing performance based measures in financial regulation …

The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector … record is particularly strong in countries where large banking sectors and big banks are both present, and where regulation …

regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to …: it rises as regulation stringency moves from low to medium levels and falls from medium to high levels. Countries located …

This paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have … incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always … skewed. These results follow from a fluctuation effect of regulatory risk that hurts parties and an output-expansion effect …

change and the economy; and (iii) further explore “compound risk” scenarios in which climate risks co-occur with other risks … risk pricing in financial markets; and (iv) better understand and incorporate the process of expectations formation around …

The paper provides a tractable, analytical framework to study regulatory risk. Regulatory risk is captured by … funds. Results are as follows: 1) The regulator's reaction to regulatory risk depends on the curvature of aggregate demand …. 2) It yields a positive information rent effect exactly when demand is convex. 3) Firms benefit from regulatory risk …

liquidity risk and characterizes them. Both a solvency (leverage) and a liquidity ratio are required to control the …