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The Dark Side of the Implementation of Basel Capital Requirements

Aurelio Gurrea Martínez | Nydia Remolina León

Following the recommendations of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, most financial systems around the world have imposed new capital requirements for banks in recent years. These moves seem...

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Proposals for reforming the SSM with a European Banking Act and a ‘CRR Light’

Matthias Lehmann

The Single Supervisory Mechanism ('SSM') puts the European Central Bank (‘ECB’) in charge of supervising the significant banks in the Eurozone. This mechanism however has serious structural...

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Unwanted Consequences: Three Concerns About The New Macroprudential Toolset

Balint Horvath | Wolf Wagner

The experience of recent years has reinforced the view that the financial system tends to amplify shocks over the cycle, leading to excessive lending in boom times and sharp contractions when...

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Bank Capital Regulations around the World: What Explains the Differences?

Gazi I. Kara

The first Basel capital adequacy standard was signed by the Group of Ten countries in 1988 to improve the stability of internationally active banks and create a level playing field. The proposal...

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Four Inconvenient Truths about Fannie and Freddie

Bernard S. Sharfman

The post was originally published on the R Street Institute website. Americans have for years been addicted to long-term (that is, 15 to 30-year) fixed-rate residential mortgage loans. We just can’t...

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