Regulating Wall Street

Regulating Wall Street
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 592
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ISBN-10 : 9780470949863
ISBN-13 : 0470949864
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Regulating Wall Street by : New York University Stern School of Business

Experts from NYU Stern School of Business analyze new financial regulations and what they mean for the economy The NYU Stern School of Business is one of the top business schools in the world thanks to the leading academics, researchers, and provocative thinkers who call it home. In Regulating Wall Street: The New Architecture of Global Finance, an impressive group of the Stern school’s top authorities on finance combine their expertise in capital markets, risk management, banking, and derivatives to assess the strengths and weaknesses of new regulations in response to the recent global financial crisis. Summarizes key issues that regulatory reform should address Evaluates the key components of regulatory reform Provides analysis of how the reforms will affect financial firms and markets, as well as the real economy The U.S. Congress is on track to complete the most significant changes in financial regulation since the 1930s. Regulating Wall Street: The New Architecture of Global Finance discusses the impact these news laws will have on the U.S. and global financial architecture.

Mitigating Systemic Risk Through Wall Street Reforms

Mitigating Systemic Risk Through Wall Street Reforms
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 124
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D038009035
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Mitigating Systemic Risk Through Wall Street Reforms by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Mitigating Systemic Risk in Financial Markets Through Wall Street Reforms

Mitigating Systemic Risk in Financial Markets Through Wall Street Reforms
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 70
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D03647244A
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Rating : 4/5 (4A Downloads)

Synopsis Mitigating Systemic Risk in Financial Markets Through Wall Street Reforms by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Financial Stability Monitoring

Financial Stability Monitoring
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1375396082
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Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Financial Stability Monitoring by : Tobias Adrian

In a recently released New York Fed staff report, we present a forward-looking monitoring program to identify and track time-varying sources of systemic risk.

The First Great Financial Crisis of the 21st Century

The First Great Financial Crisis of the 21st Century
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Publisher : World Scientific
Total Pages : 518
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ISBN-10 : 9789814651257
ISBN-13 : 9814651257
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The First Great Financial Crisis of the 21st Century by : James R. Barth

"Although there have been numerous studies of the causes and consequences of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2010 in the US and abroad, many of these were undertaken only for a small number of countries and before the financial and economic effects were fully realized and before various governmental policy responses were decided upon and actually implemented. This book aims to fill these voids by providing a more thorough assessment now that the worst events and the regulatory reforms are sufficiently behind us and much more information about these developments is available. It reviews and analyzes the causes and consequences of and the regulatory responses to the Great Financial Crisis, particularly from a public policy viewpoint. In the process, it explores such intriguing questions as: What caused the crisis? How did the crisis differ across countries? What is the outlook for another crisis, and when? This is a must read for those who are trying to find answers to these questions."--$cProvided by publisher.

Macro-Prudential Policies to Mitigate Financial System Vulnerabilities

Macro-Prudential Policies to Mitigate Financial System Vulnerabilities
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Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 9781498357609
ISBN-13 : 1498357601
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Macro-Prudential Policies to Mitigate Financial System Vulnerabilities by : Mr.Stijn Claessens

Macro-prudential policies aimed at mitigating systemic financial risks have become part of the policy toolkit in many emerging markets and some advanced countries. Their effectiveness and efficacy are not well-known, however. Using panel data regressions, we analyze how changes in balance sheets of some 2,800 banks in 48 countries over 2000–2010 respond to specific macro-prudential policies. Controlling for endogeneity, we find that measures aimed at borrowers––caps on debt-to-income and loan-to-value ratios––and at financial institutions––limits on credit growth and foreign currency lending––are effective in reducing asset growth. Countercyclical buffers are little effective through the cycle, and some measures are even counterproductive during downswings, serving to aggravate declines, consistent with the ex-ante nature of macro-prudential tools.

The Regulatory Responses to the Global Financial Crisis

The Regulatory Responses to the Global Financial Crisis
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Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Total Pages : 39
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ISBN-10 : 9781484336656
ISBN-13 : 1484336658
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Regulatory Responses to the Global Financial Crisis by : Mr.Stijn Claessens

We identify current challenges for creating stable, yet efficient financial systems using lessons from recent and past crises. Reforms need to start from three tenets: adopting a system-wide perspective explicitly aimed at addressing market failures; understanding and incorporating into regulations agents’ incentives so as to align them better with societies’ goals; and acknowledging that risks of crises will always remain, in part due to (unknown) unknowns – be they tipping points, fault lines, or spillovers. Corresponding to these three tenets, specific areas for further reforms are identified. Policy makers need to resist, however, fine-tuning regulations: a “do not harm” approach is often preferable. And as risks will remain, crisis management needs to be made an integral part of system design, not relegated to improvisation after the fact.

Risk Management and Regulation

Risk Management and Regulation
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Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Total Pages : 53
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ISBN-10 : 9781484343913
ISBN-13 : 1484343913
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Risk Management and Regulation by : Tobias Adrian

The evolution of risk management has resulted from the interplay of financial crises, risk management practices, and regulatory actions. In the 1970s, research lay the intellectual foundations for the risk management practices that were systematically implemented in the 1980s as bond trading revolutionized Wall Street. Quants developed dynamic hedging, Value-at-Risk, and credit risk models based on the insights of financial economics. In parallel, the Basel I framework created a level playing field among banks across countries. Following the 1987 stock market crash, the near failure of Salomon Brothers, and the failure of Drexel Burnham Lambert, in 1996 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the Market Risk Amendment to the Basel I Capital Accord; the amendment went into effect in 1998. It led to a migration of bank risk management practices toward market risk regulations. The framework was further developed in the Basel II Accord, which, however, from the very beginning, was labeled as being procyclical due to the reliance of capital requirements on contemporaneous volatility estimates. Indeed, the failure to measure and manage risk adequately can be viewed as a key contributor to the 2008 global financial crisis. Subsequent innovations in risk management practices have been dominated by regulatory innovations, including capital and liquidity stress testing, macroprudential surcharges, resolution regimes, and countercyclical capital requirements.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
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Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Total Pages : 692
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ISBN-10 : 9781616405410
ISBN-13 : 1616405414
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report by : Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.

Global Governance of Financial Systems

Global Governance of Financial Systems
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780195166989
ISBN-13 : 0195166981
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Global Governance of Financial Systems by : Kern Alexander

The book sets forth the economic rationale for international financial regulation and what role, if any, international regulation can play in effectively managing systemic risk while providing accountability to all affected nations. The book suggests that a particular type of global governance structure is necessary to have more efficient regulation of the international financial system.