Financial Regulation and Bank Supervision during a Pandemic

The Effects of Bank Regulation on Financial Development in the MENA Countries: The Supporting Role of Supervision

T his study investigates the impact of bank regulation on financial development in the MENA countries for the period 1995-2014. Restrictions on activity, foreign banks, and capital were used as proxies for bank regulation. Also, bank supervisory power, independence, private monitoring, and moral hazard were used as proxies for bank supervision. Liquid liabilities, private credit, and...

Macroprudential Bank Capital Regulation in a Competitive Financial System∗

We propose a tractable general equilibrium framework to analyze the effectiveness of bank capital regulations when banks face competition from public markets. Our analysis shows that increased competition can not only render previously optimal bank capital regulations ineffective but also imply that, over some ranges, increases in capital requirements cause more banks to engage in value-destroy...

Susan Schmidt Bies: Enterprise perspectives in financial institution supervision (Central Bank Articles and Speeches)

Thank you for inviting me to speak at your conference honoring Phillip I. Blumberg. I certainly wish to join you in congratulating him on publication of the new edition of The Law of Corporate Groups. Dean Blumberg speaks of the inadequacy of the traditional concept of separate corporate juridical personality when applied to the modern reality of large multinational corporations that have holdi...

FIRST MEETING OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR REGIONAL FORUM INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OF FINANCIAL REGULATION AND SUPERVISION The Rationale for Integrating Financial Supervision in Latin America and the Caribbean

This paper analyzes the pros and cons of both the integrated and the specialized approaches to financial supervision. The theoretical arguments are discussed considering some recent experiences around the world and having the Latin American and the Caribbean context as a frame. Based on the analysis of the efficacy and the efficiency of each approach to fulfill the main objectives of financial ...

BANK of ZAMBIA MEASURES TO IMPROVE FINANCIAL REGULATION AND SUPERVISION OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN ZAMBIA REMARKS AT THE UNITED NATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING ON THE WORLD FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS BY CALEB M FUNDANGA GOVERNOR BANK OF ZAMBIA