Financial Regulation: Why, How and Where Now? (CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR'S SYMPOSIUM)

Financial Regulation presents an important restatement of the purposes and objectives of financial regulation. The authors provide details and data on the scale, nature and costs of regulatory problems around the world, and look at what sort of countries and sectors require special attention and policies. Key topics covered include:
* the need to recast the form of regulation
* incentive structures for financial regulation
* proportionality
* new techniques for risk management
* regulation in emerging countries
* crisis management
* prospects for financial regulation in the future.

Charles Goodhart is Deputy Director of the Financial Markets Group and Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics and was recently appointed a member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee.Philipp Harrmann was Research Fellow for Financial Regulation at the LSE's Financial Markets Group at the time of this book's preparation and is now an economist at the European Monetary Institute in Frankfurt.,
David Llewellyn is Professor of Money and Banking at Loughborough University and a director of the Personal Investment Authority.,
Liliana Rojas-Suárez is Principal Adviser at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC. Steven Weisbrod is an independent consultant who specialises in analysing financial institutions and markets for government and international agencies and private corporations.George Eddie Governor of the Bank of England.