The Norwegian experiences of the past thirty years illustrate what we believe are two general tendencies in bank … regulation. The first one is that a bank crisis will tend to focus regulators' minds and lead to stricter regulations. The second …

to the 1930s : the rise and repudiation of commercial bank participation in investment banking -- The contradictory …

bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory … culture that embraces three economically contradictory elements: politically directed subsidies to selected bank borrowers …