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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 financial institutions. Altruistic public-benefits theories treat rules as governmental instruments for increas- ing fairness and efficiency across society as a whole....

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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 specifically describes a potentially large macro-micro database for the U.S. based on an extended version of the Flow of Funds. I argue that such a database would have been of...

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Financial Regulation, Financial Globalization and the Synchronization of Economic Activity

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2009

We analyze the impact of financial globalization on business cycle synchronization utilizing a proprietary database on banks' international exposure for industrialized countries during 1978- 2006. Theory makes ambiguous predictions and identification has been elusive due to lack of bilateral...

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Dating the Integration of World Equity Markets

Bekaert, Geert - 1998

Measuring the integration of world capital markets is notoriously difficult. For example, regulatory changes which … equity market becomes financially integrated with world capital markets. We find endogenous break dates that are very … markets are on average larger and more liquid than before; returns are more volatile and more highly correlated with the world …

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Financial Globalization and the Welfare State

Razin, Assaf - 2018

, where easing the country access to the world capital markets induces political-economy based policy changes that impact …

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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 …

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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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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....

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Assessing the Emerging Global Financial Architecture : Measuring the Trilemma's Configurations over Time

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

We develop a methodology that intuitively characterizes the choices countries have made with respect to the trilemma during the post Bretton-Woods period. The paper first outlines the new metrics for measuring the degree of exchange rate flexibility, monetary independence, and capital account...

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Crises and Sudden Stops : Evidence from International Bond and Syndicated-Loan Markets

Kaminsky, Graciela L. - 2008

The crises in Mexico, Thailand, and Russia in the 1990s spread quite rapidly to countries as far apart as South Africa and Pakistan. In the aftermath of these crises, many emerging economies lost access to international capital markets. Using data on international primary issuance, this paper...

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