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When things go wrong, it is always good to find someone to blame. As the credit crisis started to unfold in 2007, credit rating agencies (“CRAs”) emerged as the villain – or scapegoat, one might say – for commentators and regulators alike. To sum up, observers accused CRAs of doing a...
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Conventional economic analysis assumes that Central Counterparties (CCPs) may help to reduce systemic risk and avoid future financial crises by mandating the central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This view largely goes unchallenged by governments, regulators, practitioners, and...
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The Dodd-Frank Act, enacted after the global financial crisis, requires U.S. financial regulators to define and regulate systemically risky firms and activities — a truly Sisyphean task. In this Essay, we identify two paths regulators have taken: a “descriptive approach,” which involves...
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traditional sectoral system of financial regulation, which has exhibited several inadequacies in meeting the regulatory challenges …
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.S. financial regulation: (i) enactment is invariably crisis driven, adopted at a time when there is a paucity of information … Law” of U.S. financial regulation. The ensuing one-way regulatory ratchet generated by repeated financial crises has … experimentation to financial regulation. The use of those techniques, properly implemented, advances means-ends rationality, by better …
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Inadequate regulation of the financial system is widely thought to have contributed to the financial crisis. The … purpose of the book is to articulate a framework within which financial regulation can be analysed in a coherent and … regulation is best understood in the context of an appreciation of the entire financial system. Third it is international and …
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Financial regulation today is largely framed by traditional business categories. The financial markets, however, have … problems addressed by (but now beyond the reach of) current regulation, and the rise of new problems that reflect change in how … financial regulation, in light of recent changes in the financial system, and offer a tentative way forward to address gaps in …
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