Banking on Basel - The Future of International Financial Regulation (Paperback)

The turmoil in financial markets that resulted from the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States indicates the need to dramatically transform regulation and supervision of financial institutions. Would these institutions have been sounder if the 2004 Revised Framework on International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards (Basel II accord)-negotiated between 1999 and 2004-had already been fully implemented? Basel II represents a dramatic change in capital regulation of large banks in the countries represented on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: Its internal ratings-based approaches to capital regulation will allow large banks to use their own credit risk models to set minimum capital requirements. The Basel Committee itself implicitly acknowledged in spring 2008 that the revised framework would not have been adequate to contain the risks exposed by the subprime crisis and needed strengthening.This crisis has highlighted two more basic questions about Basel II: One, is the method of capital regulation incorporated in the revised framework fundamentally misguided? Two, even if the basic Basel II approach has promise as a paradigm for domestic regulation, is the effort at extensive international harmonization of capital rules and supervisory practice useful and appropriate? This book provides the answers. It evaluates Basel II as a bank regulatory paradigm and as an international arrangement, considers some possible alternatives, and recommends significant changes in the arrangement.

General

Imprint:	The Peterson Institute for International Economics
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	November 2008
Authors:	Daniel Tarullo
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	310
ISBN-13:	978-0-88132-423-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Financial services industry Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Financial law > General Books > Money & Finance > General Promotions
LSN:	0-88132-423-X
Barcode:	9780881324235

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