' liabilities, and argue that they are unlikely to improve bank boards' effectiveness or prevent excessive risk-taking. We criticize …, the European Union has engaged in an ambitious overhaul of banking regulation. One of its centerpieces, the 2013 Fourth … banks. We focus on the provisions that are aimed at reshaping bank boards' composition, functioning, and their members …

This is a chapter for a forthcoming volume Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (Oxford University Press 2014) (eds …. Eilís Ferran, Niamh Moloney, and Jennifer Payne). It provides an overview of EU financial regulation from the first banking … the accommodation of cross-border capital flows and their regulation necessarily require an orchestration of the …

addressed by an approach to financial regulation that imports its functional foundations more vigorously into the interpretation … and implementation of existing rules. It shows that the general policy goals of prudential banking regulation remain …

addressed by an approach to financial regulation that imports its functional foundations more vigorously into the interpretation … and implementation of existing rules. It shows that the general policy goals of prudential banking regulation remain …

detailed, specific, and data-driven rules that clearly delineate firms or activities that do, or do not, pose systemic risk …

risk premium that must go down if banks have more equity. It is thus incorrect to assume that the required return on equity … empirical support. We conclude that bank equity is not socially expensive, and that high leverage at the levels allowed, for … challenges are addressed, capital regulation can be a powerful tool for enhancing the role of banks in the economy. …

-2007), crisis (2008-2010), post-crisis (2011-2013) and normalcy (2014-2016). We find that risk metrics such as leverage and … premature to conclude that 'Too Big to Fail" has been solved, but macro-prudential regulation is now much more effective and …