Financial Entropy and the Optimality of Over-regulation

Alan Blinder

Chapter 1 in The New International Financial System:Analyzing the Cumulative Impact of Regulatory Reform, 2015, pp 3-35 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The following sections are included:PreviewWhy Do We Have Finance? Why Do We Regulate It?The Big Tradeoff: Less Mean for Less VarianceThe Financial Entropy TheoremThe Optimality of Over-regulationAppraising the Long-run Effects of Some Recent ReformsSummaryReferences

Keywords: Financial Stability; Systemic Risk; Financial Regulation; Too-Big-to-Fail; Regulatory Burden; Financial Institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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