Barth, James R., Caprio, Gerard, Levine, Ross

Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us

Business & Money

Barth, James R.

Levine, Ross

Caprio, Gerard, Jr.

Finance

Mit Pr

How the unaccountable, unmonitorable, and unchecked actions of regulators precipitated the global financial crisis; and how to reform the system. 
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. Or at least this is the story told and retold by a chorus of luminaries that includes Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson, Robert Rubin, Ben Bernanke, and Alan Greenspan. 
In Guardians of Finance, economists James Barth, Gerard Caprio, and Ross Levine argue that the financial meltdown of 2007 to 2009 was no accident; it was negligent homicide. They show that senior regulatory officials around the world knew or should have known that their policies were destabilizing the global financial system and yet chose not to act until the crisis had fully emerged.
Barth, Caprio, and Levine propose a reform to counter this systemic failure: the establishment of a “Sentinel” to provide an informed, expert, and independent assessment of financial regulation. Its sole power would be to demand information and to evaluate it from the perspective of the public―rather than that of the financial industry, the regulators, or politicians.

Caprio, Gerard

MIT Press]

This volume assembles and presents a database on bank regulation in over 150 countries (included also on CD). It offered the first comprehensive cross-country assessment of the impact of bank regulation on the operation of banks, and assesses the validity of the Basel Committee's influential approach to bank regulation. The treatment also provides an empirical evaluation of the historic debate about the proper role of government in the economy by studying bank regulation and analyzes the role of politics in determining regulatory approaches to banking. The data also indicate that restrictions on the entry of banks, government ownership of banks, and restrictions on bank activities hurt banking system performance. The authors find that domestic political factors shape both regulations and their effectiveness.

Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern

Caprio Jr., Gerard

Economics

Cambridge University Press

A preparation guide for the second test of three in the United States Medical Licensing Exam series. The clinical science facts are organized into core clinical specialties and subspecialties. Numerous color and b&amp;w photos of clinical images are provided. The revised edition adds strategies for the new computer-based testing format. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

First Aid for the USMLE Step 2: A Student to Student Guide

Medical Books

Amin, Chirag

LE,TAO

Bhushan,Vikas

Berkeley, Ross

Ruiz, Diego

Medicine

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