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Banking Regulation as a Solution to Financial Fragility

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Coping with Financial Fragility and Systemic Risk

Part of the book series: Financial and Monetary Policy Studies ((FMPS,volume 30))

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The purpose of this article is to evaluate the role of government regulation dealing with the risk that fragility of the financial structure may lead to a collapse of the system. Other papers presented at this conference deal with the possible sources of such a collapse—the payments system, international connections, or derivative securities—and with the likelihood that the system is fragile, and the extent to which private solutions maybe adequate to deal with the problem.

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  1. University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204-6282, USA

    Paul M. Horvitz (Judge James Elkins Professor of Banking and Finance, member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee)

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  1. University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Harald A. Benink (Assistant Professor of Finance, Adviser of the Banking and Financial Services Group of Moret Ernst & Young) (Assistant Professor of Finance, Adviser of the Banking and Financial Services Group of Moret Ernst & Young)

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Horvitz, P.M. (1995). Banking Regulation as a Solution to Financial Fragility. In: Benink, H.A. (eds) Coping with Financial Fragility and Systemic Risk. Financial and Monetary Policy Studies, vol 30. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2373-1_12

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