This paper examines the behavior of futures prices and trader positions around the occurrence of price limits in commodity futures markets. We ask whether limit events are the result of shocks to fundamental volatility or the result of temporary volatility induced by the trading of...

This Article demonstrates that regulatory collisions are an unintended consequence of well-meaning, post-financial crisis reforms by both public and private market regulators in the over-the-counter derivatives market. Many of these reforms are designed to regulate systemic risk. As this Article...

Legislators are calling for a “systemic risk regulator”, in part to provide an early warning of financial conditions that threaten the real economy. To succeed, however, we need a forward-looking measure of systemic risk. Even more, we need a measure that varies with “pollution” from...

The global financial crisis demonstrated the inability and unwillingness of financial market participants to safeguard the stability of the financial system. It also highlighted the enormous direct and indirect costs of addressing systemic crises after they have occurred, as opposed to...

Systemic risk management is at the forefront of financial regulatory agendas worldwide. The global financial crisis was a powerful demonstration of the inability and unwillingness of financial market participants to carry out the task of safeguarding the stability of the financial system. It...

This is an unedited draft of the closing chapter of a forthcoming book, entitled Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: Ten Years After the Great Crash, that will be published by CIGI Press in fall 2019 (edited by Douglas W. Arner, Emilios Avgouleas, Danny Busch, and Steven L. Schwarcz). The...

A decade after the financial crisis, regulators worry that the regulation enacted to help stabilize the financial system may be insufficient to prevent another crisis. Examining that regulation with the benefit of hindsight, this Article finds that much has been accomplished but much remains to...