The social value of the financial sector : too big to fail or just too big? / editors, Viral V Acharya (New York University, USA & Centre for Economic Policy (CEPR), UK) [and four others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Keynote addresses -- A ferment of regulatory proposals / Charles A. E. Goodhart�a -- Progress and priorities for financial reform / Mary John Miller -- Description and measurement of the financial system : what is meaningful banking reform, why is it so necessary and so unlikely? / Charles W. Calomiris -- The great leveraging / Alan M. Taylor -- Social benefits and costs of the current financial system : bank regulatory reforms and racial wage discrimination / Ross Levine, Alexey Levkov, and Yona Rubinstein -- Finance : economic lifeblood or toxin? / Marco Pagano -- Finance : is bigger badder? / Gerard Caprio, Jr -- Financial industry innovation -- A proposal for the resolution of systemically important assets and liabilities : the case of the repo market / Viral V. Acharya and T. Sabri �Onc�u -- Reexamining financial innovation after the global financial crisis / W. Scott Frame and Lawrence J. White -- Financial innovation and shadow banking / Luc Laeven -- Effects of regulation, the safety net and other government guarantees : evolving intermediation / Nicola Cetorelli�a -- The socially optimal level of capital requirements : a view from two papers / Javier Suarez�a -- Effects of regulation, the safety net, and other government guarantees / Mathias Dewatripont�a -- Finance and economic activity : variations across emerging and developed markets -- Legal and alternative institutions in finance and commerce / Franklin Allen and Jun Qian -- Finance in the tropics : understanding structural gaps and policy challenges / Thorsten Beck -- Foreign banks : access to finance and financial stability / Neeltje van Horen�a -- Institutions, finance, and economic activity : views and agenda / Elias Papaioannou�a -- Break up the big banks? -- Breaking (banks) up is hard to do : new perspective on too big to fail / James R. Barth and Apanard (Penny) Prabha -- Restructuring the banking system to improve safety and soundness / Thomas M. Hoenig and Charles S. Morris -- Ending too big to fail : a proposal for reform / Richard W. Fisher and Harvey Rosenblum�a -- Where to from here? implementation, implementation, implementation / Claudio Borio -- Complexity in financial regulation / Andrew G. Haldane and Vasileios Madouros -- Financial reform : on the right road, at the right pace? / Thomas Huertas -- Banking regulation and supervision in the next 10 years and their unintended consequences / Dani�ele Nouy -- The social value of the financial sector : where to from here? / Barbara A. Rehm -- Public policy options / J�urgen Stark.

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