The Social Value of the Financial Sector:Too Big to Fail or Just Too Big?

Edited by Viral Acharya, Thorsten Beck, Douglas Evanoff, George G Kaufman and Richard Portes

in World Scientific Books from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: As a result of the recent financial crisis, there has been significant public debate on the role of the financial sector in bringing about the “Great Depression.” More generally, there has been debate about whether the current industry structure has enhanced social welfare or served a detrimental role.

Keywords: Depository Institutions; Banks; Too-Big-to-Fail; Financial Innovations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9789814520287
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 A Ferment of Regulatory Proposals , pp 3-10

Charles A. E. Goodhart

Ch 2 Progress and Priorities for Financial Reform , pp 11-19

Mary John Miller

Ch 3 What Is Meaningful Banking Reform, Why Is It So Necessary … and So Unlikely? , pp 23-32

Charles Calomiris

Ch 4 The Great Leveraging , pp 33-65

Alan Taylor

Ch 5 Finance and Economic Development in a Model with Credit Rationing , pp 67-80

Jean-Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes and Ugo Panizza

Ch 6 Too Much Finance, Too Much Credit? Comments on Papers by Calomiris, Arcand–Berkes–Panizza, and Taylor , pp 81-87

Eugene N. White

Ch 7 Bank Regulatory Reforms and Racial Wage Discrimination , pp 91-107

Ross Levine, Alexey Levkov and Yona Rubinstein

Ch 8 Finance: Economic Lifeblood or Toxin? , pp 109-146

Marco Pagano

Ch 9 Finance: Is Bigger Badder? , pp 147-155

Gerard Caprio

Ch 10 A Proposal for the Resolution of Systemically Important Assets and Liabilities: The Case of the Repo Market , pp 159-214

Viral Acharya and T. Sabri Öncü

Ch 11 Reexamining Financial Innovation after the Global Financial Crisis , pp 215-228

W Frame and Lawrence J. White

Ch 12 Financial Innovation and Shadow Banking , pp 229-235

Luc Laeven

Ch 13 Evolving Intermediation , pp 239-255

Nicola Cetorelli

Ch 14 The Socially Optimal Level of Capital Requirements: A View from Two Papers , pp 257-266

Javier Suarez

Ch 15 Effects of Regulation, the Safety Net, and Other Government Guarantees , pp 267-272

Mathias Dewatripont

Ch 16 Legal and Alternative Institutions in Finance and Commerce , pp 275-302

Franklin Allen and Jun “QJ” Qian

Ch 17 Finance in the Tropics: Understanding Structural Gaps and Policy Challenges , pp 303-321

Thorsten Beck

Ch 18 Foreign Banks: Access to Finance and Financial Stability , pp 323-343

Neeltje Van Horen

Ch 19 Institutions, Finance, and Economic Activity: Views and Agenda , pp 345-374

Elias Papaioannou

Ch 20 Breaking (Banks) Up Is Hard to Do: New Perspective on Too Big to Fail , pp 377-400

James Barth and Apanard (Penny) Prabha

Ch 21 Restructuring the Banking System to Improve Safety and Soundness , pp 401-425

Thomas M. Hoenig and Charles Morris

Ch 22 Ending Too Big to Fail: A Proposal for Reform , pp 427-444

Richard W. Fisher and Harvey Rosenblum

Ch 23 Where to from Here? Implementation, Implementation, Implementation , pp 447-454

Claudio Borio

Ch 24 Complexity in Financial Regulation , pp 455-463

Andrew Haldane and Vasileios Madouros

Ch 25 Financial Reform: On the Right Road, at the Right Pace? , pp 465-470

Thomas F. Huertas

Ch 26 Banking Regulation and Supervision in the Next 10 Years and Their Unintended Consequences , pp 471-502

Danièle Nouy

Ch 27 The Social Value of the Financial Sector: Where to from Here? , pp 503-509

Barbara A. Rehm

Ch 28 Public Policy Options , pp 511-517

Jürgen Stark

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