 Systemic Risk and Macroprudential Bank Regulation: A Critical AppraisalJournal of Financial Transformation, 2011, vol. 33, 45-60 Abstract: This paper discusses and critically appraises recent developments in the definition, measurement, and regulation of systemic risks. Although the issue of systemic risks has been subjected to considerable study, there is not widespread agreement on how to define the concept of systemic risk. Initial efforts to measure systemic risks emphasized aggregate financial ratios, and only recently have a variety of institution-level systemic-risk measurement techniques been proposed and studied. Thus, regulators charged with conducting macroprudential regulation, such as the Financial Stability Oversight Council created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, must act without a consensus about how to define and measure the form of risk they are charged with limiting. Furthermore, there are three largely unexplored pitfalls associated with establishing a macroprudential-supervision apparatus: (1) An enlarged potential for regulatory capture and associated welfare losses; (2) A danger of over-relying on centralized governmental command-and-control mechanisms that might be at least as subject to breakdowns as private markets while under-relying on private market discipline; and (3) Failures to contemplate a role for private contractual (Coasian) solutions to externality problems that contribute to systemic-risk problems and to recognize that a broadened scope of regulations can actually undermine the incentives for financial institutions to contain these externality problems. Future research should explore these issues, which have generally not been addressed in the literature on systemic risk and macroprudential regulation. Keywords: systemic risk; macroprudential regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ris:jofitr:1507 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Financial Transformation is currently edited by Prof. Shahin Shojai More articles in Journal of Financial Transformation from Capco Institute 77 Water Street, 10th Floor, New York NY 10005. |
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