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Law, Bubbles, and Financial Regulation - Chapter 1 - The Regulatory Instability Hypothesis
Gerding, Erik F. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012905124
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Reframing Financial Regulation
Whitehead, Charles K. - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151563
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The political economy of finance and regulatory capture : evidence from the US Congress
Silano, Filippo - 2023
The 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis is a watershed phenomenon that reshaped global capitalism. Stemming from the argument that the Crisis was caused by deregulation, this article assesses to what extent the financial industry influenced the legislative process underlying these reforms. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014370438
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Regulating Credit Rating Agencies after the Financial Crisis : The Long and Winding Road Toward Accountability
Rousseau, Stephane - 2009
The credit crisis that started in the American mortgage subprime market in 2007 is having profound social and economic consequences. In this context, lawmakers, regulators, and commentators have questioned the role of rating agencies in the market turmoil. In light of the critiques, a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156993
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Further Assessment of the Iron Law of Financial Regulation : A Postscript to Regulating in the Dark
Romano, Roberta - 2014
.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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044722
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Historical Perspectives on the Financial Crisis : Ivar Kreuger, the Credit-Rating Agencies, and Two Theories About the Function, and Dysfunction, of Markets
Partnoy, Frank - 2010
This Essay discusses two historical parallels between the current financial crisis and the financial crisis of the late 1920s and 1930s. First, financial innovation was at the core of both crises. In particular, the machinations of Ivar Kreuger illuminate how financial innovation tends to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148212
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The Need for Consolidating International Financial Regulatory Architecture
Barton, Uzma Ashraf - 2013
The existing international financial regulatory architecture is multifarious. Prevalent regulatory forums are numerous, with over-lapping spheres of activity, where all such forums share a lack of consolidated authority. Bodies like the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), Group of 20,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092182
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Bankers’ Pay after the 2008 Crisis : Regulatory Reforms in the US and the EU
Ferrarini, Guido - 2013
Atlantic. We show that the regulation of bankers' pay is presently more detailed and less flexible in Europe than in the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091649
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The Global Crisis : Fatal Decisions - Four Case Studies in Financial Regulation
Goodstadt, Leo F. - 2009
This paper uses four case studies to review the performance of the Anglo-American regulatory ‘culture'. In the decade before the global financial crisis, American and British officials were almost identical in their analysis of and non-interventionist responses to identified threats from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153417