Financial Regulation

If we ever solve the problems of fixing the broken financial markets that promote Wall Street’s casino capitalism at the expense of productive investments built around relationship banking, the solutions [...]

News and Commentary On VoxEU's economics podcast, Maurice Obstfeld talks with Tim Phillips about the history of financial globalization and its future. The Cato Institute's Norbert Michel comments on indications [...]

New Research In an NBER working paper, Katharina Bergant and Kristin Forbes utilized the policy responses to COVID-19 "to examine how macroprudential frameworks developed over the past decade performed during [...]

News and Commentary At the Wall Street Journal, Simon Clark and Caitlin Ostroff cover banks' resistance to the Basel Committee's proposed rules for cryptocurrency assets. From the banks' letter to [...]

News and Commentary From the White House, President Biden's nominations for key regulatory and investor protection positions were announced. At Reuters, Jonnelle Marte reports on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's [...]

News and Commentary At the American Action Forum, Thomas Wade analyzes the FHFA's decision to end policies limiting government-sponsored enterprises from buying risky mortgages. "In what is primarily a problem [...]

News and Commentary In an article in The Washington Post, Rachel Siegel covers the state of play in Biden's pick for the Federal Reserves Vice Chair for Supervision, alternatively known [...]

News and Commentary In an episode of the Macro Musings podcast, host David Beckworth discusses the growth of the Federal Reserve with Bill Nelson, Chief Economist at the Bank Policy [...]

News & Commentary In an article in the New York Times, Jeanna Smialek and Alan Rappeport discuss how, as Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen will have influential input during [...]

News and Commentary In an episode of the Macro Musings podcast, host David Beckworth talks with Mercatus’ Larry White on stablecoins, money market funds, and the history of free banking. [...]