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Identifying And Managing Systemic Risk: An Assessment Of Our Progress, Steven L. Schwarcz
Identifying And Managing Systemic Risk: An Assessment Of Our Progress, Steven L. Schwarcz
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Although a chain of bank failures remains an important symbol of systemic risk, the ongoing trend towards disintermediation—or enabling companies to directly access the ultimate source of funds, the capital (i.e., financial) markets, without going through banks or other financial intermediaries—is making these failures less critical than in the past. While banks and other financial institutions remain important sources of capital, companies today are able to obtain most of their financing through financial markets without the use of intermediaries. As a result, financial markets themselves are increasingly central to any examination of systemic risk.
Capture In Financial Regulation: Can We Redirect It Toward The Common Good?, Lawrence G. Baxter
Capture In Financial Regulation: Can We Redirect It Toward The Common Good?, Lawrence G. Baxter
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“Regulatory capture” is central to regulatory analysis yet is a troublesome concept. It is difficult to prove and sometimes seems refuted by outcomes unfavorable to powerful interests. Nevertheless, the process of bank regulation and supervision fosters a closeness between regulator and regulated that would seem to be conducive to “capture” or at least to fostering undue sympathy by regulators for the companies they oversee. The influence of very large financial institutions has also become so great that financial regulation appears to have become excessively distorted in favor of these entities and to the detriment of many other legitimate interests, including …