This paper evaluates whether reform efforts addressing “too big to fail” actually enhance the stability of the financial system, and whether trade-offs exist between stability and efficiency. We also present and discuss various measures of bank size and complexity since such measures are...

This study analyzes the causes of the market discipline failure in the recent financial crisis. We argue that the most important market failure of informativeness was that large financial institutions had the incentive to remain opaque strategically so that outside investors could not assess...

Argument for delaying capital account convertibility in the sequencing of a liberalization program are reviewed. Several of the common arguments for capital controls are questioned here on the grounds that they depend on assumptions about policy and market failures being exogenous. Relaxing...

The view that capital flows are typically exogenous destabilizing factors suggests the need for heavy regulation of financial flows. Another view, that capital flows are largely rational, endogenous responses to underlying conditions, suggests that policies, rather than market responses, are...

The existing evidence on the volume effects of exchange rate risk and exchange rate regime choice is examined. The analysis involves estimating the effects of cross-country differences in exchange rate regime on export and import elasticities using a continuous measure of the degree of exchange...