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Guardians of finance : making regulators work for us / James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr., and Ross Levine.

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"The recent financial crisis was an accident, a 'perfect storm' fueled by an unforeseeable confluence of events that unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. And policy makers? They did everything they could, given their limited authority. It was all a terrib...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Barth, James R. (Author), Caprio, Gerard (Author), Levine, Ross (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Financial crises > United States.
Financial crises > United States > Prevention.
Finance > Government policy > United States.
Financial institutions > United States.
Banks and banking > United States.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Banks and banking.
Finance > Government policy.
Financial crises.
Financial crises > Prevention.
Financial institutions.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Regulating finance is hard to do
  • Incentives run amok
  • How U.S. regulators encouraged the financial crisis
  • American crisis? Ain't necessarily so
  • Been down this road many times before
  • More of the same: post 2007-2009 financial crisis regulation
  • Making the guardians of finance work for us.

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