Regulators in developing countries may not have access to timely ex-post verifiable information regarding banks' capital or investment decision. This paper examines whether, in such an environment, regulators can enforce capital requirements. Using a model of a relationship between a regulator...

Why do governments in some developing countries implement international standards, while others do not? Focusing on the politics of bank regulation, this book develops a new framework to explain regulatory interdependence between countries in the core and the periphery of the global financial...