Introduction -- A systemic regulator for financial markets -- A new information infrastructure for financial markets -- Regulation of retirement savings -- Reforming capital requirements for financial institutions -- Regulation of executive compensation in financial services -- An expedited...

To address the moral hazard problem that can motivate bank executives to take excessive risks and to fail to raise capital when needed, a group of 13 distinguished financial economists recommends that systemically important financial institutions be required to issue contingent convertible debt...

In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists--representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion--gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform. The Squam Lake Report distills the wealth of insights from...