Regulatory capture and financial crisis

The Federal Banking Regulators: Agency Capture, Regulatory Failure, And Industry Collapse During The 2008 Financial Crisis

THE FEDERAL BANKING REGULATORS: AGENCY CAPTURE, REGULATORYFAILURE, AND INDUSTRY COLLAPSE DURING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISISbyJUSTIN REXAugust 2013Advisor: Dr. Marjorie Sarbaugh-ThompsonMajor: Political ScienceDegree: Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation examines the process of agency capture at four federal bank regulatoryagencies leading up to the 2008 finan...

Europe between Financial Repression and Regulatory Capture

• The financial crisis modified drastically and rapidly the European financial system’s political economy, with the emergence of two competing narratives. First, government agencies are frequently described as being at the mercy of the financial sector, routinely hijacking political, regulatory and supervisory processes, a trend often referred to as “capture”. But alternatively, governments are...

Financial Structure and Financial Crisis

For many years the economies of South East Asia were regarded as models for economic development. The four tigers, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, grew from low levels of income per head to among the highest in the world in a few decades. The newly industrializing economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand had also started to grow at an extremely rapid rate. The Philippines had...

Crisis Transmission: Global Financial Crisis

The aim of this paper is to explore, empirically, the channels of crisis transmission with regard to the Global financial crisis. EMP-based crisis proxy is used for eight countries, which include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Russia. The period considered for estimation was Q1 2001 Q2 2010. Based on the Vector AutoRegression (VAR) and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS...

Financial market crisis and financial market channel