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Can the Plight of the European Banking Structural Reforms Be a Blessing in Disguise?
Nabilou, Hossein - 2020
commercial and investment banking activities under one entity, as well as the interconnectedness of the banking entities with … other financial institutions, investment funds, and the shadow banking system. This paper focuses on various measures that … aim to structurally separate the banking entities and their core functions from riskier financial activities such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012849279
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How and Why Economies Develop and Grow : Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China
Kohn, Meir - 2010
Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135194
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Who Is Responsible for the Financial Crisis? Lessons from a Separation Thesis
Sun, William - 2011
This chapter argues that a separation thesis was explicitly or implicitly beneath the entire subprime mortgage lending and transaction processes, and largely responsible for the resulting crisis. As the global financial crisis started from the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123479
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The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and Hedge Funds’ Systemic Risk Regulation in the EU
Nabilou, Hossein - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073172
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Regulatory Arbitrage and Hedge Fund Regulation : A Need for a Transnational Response?
Nabilou, Hossein - 2017
Regulatory arbitrage is an indispensable element of regulatory competition as it provides regulatory substitutes for firms, and allows those firms to optimally benefit from such competition. This also increases the elasticity of demand for regulators and engenders accountability among them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974012
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In CCP We Trust … Or Do We? Assessing the Regulation of Central Clearing Counterparties in Europe
Nabilou, Hossein - 2020
As part of financial market infrastructures, central counterparties (CCPs) have long been deemed systemically important and are likely to gain in importance due to the regulatory developments mandating central clearing for an increasing number of financial products. This paper focuses on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852181
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Repo Markets Across the Atlantic : Similar but Unalike
Wu, Songjiwen - 2020
This paper sketches the key differences in the EU and the U.S. repo markets to inform the policy recommendations for harmonization and standardization of rules governing repo contracts put forward by the international financial fora and standard setters. In so doing, it examines three main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852456
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Shadow Banking in Europe : Idiosyncrasies and Their Implications for Financial Regulation
Nabilou, Hossein - 2020
This paper studies the specificities of the regulation of shadow banking in the EU. It argues that the idiosyncratic … features of the EU shadow banking sector call for a different (or indigenized) regulatory approach from that of the U.S. It … highlights striking differences between the EU and the U.S. shadow banking sector based on both the market structure and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853767
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A Tale of Regulatory Divergence : Contrasting Transatlantic Policy Responses to the Alleged Role of Alternative Investment Funds in Financial Instability
Nabilou, Hossein - 2020
This article analyzes the regulatory measures adopted to address the potential contribution of hedge funds to financial instability in the U.S. and the EU in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. The relevant provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act include two sets of direct regulatory measures. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855060
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The Hedge Fund Regulation Dilemma : Direct vs. Indirect Regulation
Nabilou, Hossein - 2015
This article studies the regulatory strategies to address the potential systemic risk of hedge funds operation in financial markets. Due to the implications of the choice of regulatory strategies and instruments in terms of mitigating systemic risk, the article focuses on one critical aspect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035084