Using bank-level data from 38 countries, this paper examines how a range of stability-oriented regulatory policies for … banking are related to competition outcomes. Based on policy indicators constructed at the OECD for eight areas of prudential … banking regulation, the results do not support the view that there is a general trade-off between stability …

III rules, thus suggesting a "race to the top" in capital standards. We study regulatory competition when banks are … coordinated ones when governments care equally about bank profits, taxpayers, and consumers. …

growing safety net. In turn, to minimize their risk exposure, they have also put in place expansive systems of regulation and …

This chapter of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation considers, in broad historical perspective and … financial crises and regulation. It begins with an overview of financial crises generally, and then considers both the … historical and potential future role of regulation in financial crises. It discusses various theories of the roots of financial …