Today policymakers in all the countries, shocked by the financial crisis of the 2007-2008, are reconsidering carefully the features of their supervisory regimes. This paper reviews the changing face of the financial supervisory regimes introducing new indicators to measure the level of...

World economies during the last century have witnessed a number of financial and banking crises resulting in tremendous loss in inflicted economies. The severity of these losses prompted Prudential authorities (World Bank, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund -IMF and Central Banks...

We evaluate how a country's governance structure for macroprudential policy affects its implementation of Basel III macroprudential capital buffers. We find that the probabilities of using the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB) are higher in countries that have financial stability committees...

Originating from a networked committee of national supervisory authorities with limited decision-making powers, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has become a prominent regulator in European financial sector governance since 2008. It is the single supervisor of credit rating...

Regulation of banks and financial institutions to avoid a crisis similar to the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 has been a theme of financial regulation and much research. Much of the research has been explicitly designed to affect regulatory policy. In this article, I take a step back and...

This paper studies the effect of optimal macroprudential policy in a small open economy model where growth is endogenous. By introducing endogenous growth, this model is able to capture the persistent effect of financial crises on output, which is different from previous literature but...

This article reviews the impact of Brexit on the European System of Financial Supervision (ESFS) and claims that the withdrawal of the United Kingdom will lead to more centralisation of supervision at EU level and a tightening of the supervision over third countries' markets actors. This...

Three metrics are designed to assess Colombian financial institutions' size, connectedness and non-substitutability as the main drivers of systemic importance: (i) centrality as net borrower in the money market network; (ii) centrality as payments originator in the large-value payment system...