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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation

Kane, Edward J. - 2008

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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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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Durable Financial Regulation : Monitoring Financial Instruments as a Counterpart to Regulating Financial Institutions

Nakamura, Leonard I. - 2011

This paper sets forth a discussion framework for the information requirements of systemic financial regulation. It …

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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets : An Overview

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010

as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest … objectives can in fact reinforce one another. I also discuss aspects of macroeconomic policies and cross-border regulation that …

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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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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 Innovation and the Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions

Merton, Robert C. - 2014

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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Financial Openness, Sudden Stops and Current Account Reversals

Edwards, Sebastian - 2011

In this paper I use a panel data set to investigate the mechanics of sudden stops of capital inflows and current account reversals. I am particularly interested in four questions: (a) What is the relationship between sudden stops and current account reversals? (b) To what extent does financial...

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The End of Alchemy : a Review Essay

Farmer, Roger E. A. - 2017

I review The End of Alchemy by Mervyn King, published by W.W. Norton and Company in 2016. I discuss King's proposed regulatory reform, the ‘Pawn Broker for All Seasons' (PFAS) and I compare it to an alternative solution developed in my own work. I argue that unregulated trade in the financial...

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Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Contagion

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2010

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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