Financial Supervision Fragmentation and Central Bank Independence: The Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Andreas Freytag () and Donato Masciandaro
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Donato Masciandaro: Paolo Baffi Centre, Bocconi University, Milan, and Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Lecce

No 14/2005, Jenaer Schriften zur Wirtschaftswissenschaft from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Abstract: This paper analyses how the central banks role in the monetary institutional setting can affect the unification process of the overall financial supervision architecture. Using indicators of monetary commitment and central bank independence, we claim that these legal proxies show an inverse link with financial supervision unification. Therefore, the trade off still holds between the supervisory and the central bank involvement per se, however, monetary commitment and independence do also matter. In this respect, in an institutional setting characterized by a central bank deeply and successfully involved in supervision, or legally independent, a multi-authority model is likely to occur.

Keywords: Financial Supervision; Single Authority; Central Bank Independence; Monetary Commitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E58 G20 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-fin, nep-fmk, nep-mac and nep-mon
Date: 2005-11-01
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