U.S. financial regulation has traditionally made functional and institutional regulation roughly equivalent. However, the gradual shift away from Glass-Steagall and the introduction of the Financial Modernization Act (FMA) generated a disorderly mix of functions and products across institutions,...

We review the major provisions of Dodd-Frank, focusing on the monitoring of systemic risk, the limitation on proprietary trading, the regulation of the hedge fund industry, credit rating agencies, and the rules applicable to derivative trading. We compare these provisions with the recent...

Nach dem Ausbruch der globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008 haben die G20-Staats- und Regierungschefs in verschiedenen Gipfelerklärungen umfassende Re-Regulierungen des Finanzsektors und den Abbau globaler Ungleichgewichte versprochen. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, inwieweit diese...