The global financial meltdown has led to a renewed focus on the purposes of securities regulation and on the expansion of these purposes to include considerations of systemic risk; yet the case for such an expansion has been assumed more than argued. This article derives an argument for...

We argue that the concept of “systemic risk,” which traditionally focused on the relative stability of financial institutions and the consequences of their failure, has evolved to include macroprudential risk and the possibility that an entire economy will be affected by a triggering event...

This chapter is a contribution to an interdisciplinary book that drew on some of the world's leading experts on financial stability and regulation to examine and critique the progress made since 2008 in addressing systemic risk. The chapter contends that Canadian regulators’ ability to address...

Following the recent financial crisis, regulators have been preoccupied with the concept of systemic risk in financial markets, believing that such risk could cause the markets that they oversee to implode. At the same time, they have demonstrated a certain inability to develop and implement...