Introduction : financial regulators and international relations -- Capital regulation : a brief primer -- Theoretical framework : regulators, legislatures, and domestic balancing -- The road to the Basel Accord : international regulation in banking -- Financial instability and regulatory...

Regulating Capital -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Financial Regulators and International Relations -- 2. Capital Regulation: A Brief Primer -- 3. Regulators, Legislatures, and Domestic Balancing -- 4. Banking: The Road to the Basel Accord -- 5. Securities: Financial Instability and...

This paper distils three lessons for bank regulation from the experience of the 2009-12 euro-area financial crisis. First, it highlights the key role that sovereign debt exposures of banks have played in the feedback loop between bank and fiscal distress, and inquires how the regulation of...

This paper develops an analytical framework that can be used to anticipate problems in the banking system and enable supervisors to take mitigating actions at an early stage. This paper has two components. First, it develops an early warning indicator that is intended to capture a number of the...

This paper describes concepts and tools behind macroprudential monitoring, and the growing importance of macroprudential tools for assessing the stability of financial systems. This paper also employs a macroprudential approach in examining financial soundness and identifying its determinants....