The concept of regulatory systemic risk – a long-term imbalance, resulting from the misalignment between regulatory initiatives and market realities, that impacts multiple areas of the regulatory framework – is developed in the context of US securities regulation. The discussion offers two...

Introduction -- Why didn't the EU-wide stress tests receive a better reaction? -- Operational features and evolution of the US and EU-wide tests -- Criticisms of stress-testing methodology and of the measurement of bank capital -- Criticism of the height of the target capital ratio in stress...

This article evaluates the post-2008 legal/regulatory framework of financial consumer protection in the U.S. and the E.U. and argues that financial consumer protection is not sufficiently robust to have a significantly positive impact on financial stability. To turn this around, the article...