- Enhancing Bank Supervision in Asia: Lessons Learned from the Financial Crisis
Report · 23 December 2015
The global financial crisis underlined that sound and effective bank regulation is vital to financial stability. Assessments of the global financial crisis invariably point to ineffective finance…
- Breaking the Deadlock: A Single Supervisor to Unshackle Europe's Capital Markets Union
14 August 2025
The debate about a European Union single market for nonbank financial services goes back decades. In recent years, the economic and strategic case for the idea, rebranded as capital markets union in…
- Financial Regulation and Bank Supervision during a Pandemic
Report · 22 January 2021
Pandemics lead to a sudden decline in the level of economic activities. Lending institutions reduce credit supply to businesses due to fears of rising bad debts during a pandemic. This paper…
- The Death of a Regulator: Strict Supervision, Bank Lending, and Business Activity
3 January 2018
We exploit the extinction of the thrift supervisor (OTS) to analyze the effects of supervision on bank lending and bank management. We first show that the OTS replacement resulted in stricter…
- Regulations, Supervision Approaches and Acquisition Likelihood in the Asian Banking Industry
27 January 2007
We investigate the association between the regulatory and supervision framework and the acquisition likelihood in the Asian banking industry. The sample consists of 472 commercial banks operating in…
- Transformation of Banking Regulation and Supervision Practices to Public Administration: Eliminating and Preventing Poor Governance
10 April 2025
This paper proposes a transformative approach to public administration oversight by adapting successful risk management regulation and risk-based supervision practices from the banking sector. It…
- Toward an Effective Supervision of Partially Dollarized Banking Systems
23 March 2006
The paper presents a supervisory framework that addresses the vulnerabilities of partially dollarized banking systems. The tendency to underprice systemic liquidity risk and currency-induced credit…
- The Real Effects of Bank Supervision: Evidence from On-Site Bank Inspections
Report · 19 November 2021
We show that bank supervision reduces distortions in credit markets and generates positive spillovers for the real economy. Exploiting the quasi-random selection of inspected banks in Italy, we show…
- Governor Ciampi and the “Ambrosiano Case”: International Banking Supervision and Monetary Policy
19 April 2021
Following bank failures in 1974, notably in Germany (Bankhaus Herstatt of Cologne on June 16) and the US (Franklin National Bank of New York on October 8), the Central Bank Governors of the G10…
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Employees’ Negative Behaviors under Abusive Supervision: A Multilevel Insight
18 May 2020
This study attempts to advance the current research debate on corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the micro-level by empirically examining the effect of perceived CSR on employee behaviors such…
- The European Central Bank's supervisory powers: the need for enhanced macro-prudential supervision
Report · 27 May 2025
This chapter discusses recent international regulatory reforms and developments in macro-prudential supervision in Europe and analyses whether the supervisory competences and the institutional design…
- Inside and Outside of the Central Banks: Independence and Accountability in Financial Supervision -Trends and Determinants
23 May 2008
This paper analyzes recent trends in, and determinants of, financial supervisory governance inside and outside central banks. We first identify similarities and differences between this emerging…
- New Advantages of Tying One’s Hands: Supervision, Monetary Policy and Central Bank Independence
17 July 2010
We investigate the reasons that induce policymakers to assign banking supervision to central banks rather than involving authorities outside the banking sector. We find that higher central bank…
- Optimal Supervisory Policies and Depositor-Preference Laws
13 December 2005
When supervisors have imperfect information about the soundness of banks, they may be unaware of insolvency problems that develop in the interval between on-site examinations. Supervising banks more…
- Bank Regulation, Supervision and Efficiency During the Global Financial Crisis
Report · 4 September 2014
In this study, using the World Bank’s Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey (BRSS) data, we draw insights about the bank regulatory/supervisory styles, illustrate the differences in…
- "To Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking": How the Birth of the Fed Altered Bank Supervision
Report · 28 February 2011
lthough bank supervision under the National Banking System exercised a light hand and panics were frequent, depositor losses were minimal. Double liability induced shareholders to carefully monitor…
- Supervision and Compliance of Brokerage Firms
15 May 2018
Brokerage firms are governed by a comprehensive set of rules and guidance regarding the firms supervision of its brokers. This article traces the supervision rules from their statutory origin through…
- European System of Financial Supervision
5 August 2015
In September 2009, the European Commission (‘the Commission’) brought forward proposals to replace the EU’s existing supervisory architecture with a European System of Financial Supervision (‘ESFS’)…
- Restoring Confidence in Systemically Important Banks: Ecb Supervision and Bank Performance
Report · 16 July 2024
Since the introduction of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) in 2014, the European Central Bank (ECB) has directly supervised over 110 large banks in the euro area. We empirically examine how ECB…
- The Regulation and Supervision of the Belgian Financial System (1830 - 2005)
19 July 2022
This paper provides an overview of the regulation and supervision of the Belgian financial system from the creation of Belgium in 1830 to the early 21st century. After severe crises, the National…
- Optimal Supervisory Policies and Depositor-Preferences Laws
18 April 2011
When supervisors have imperfect information about the soundness of banks, they may be unaware of insolvency problems that develop in the interval between on-site examinations. Supervising banks more…
- Strengthening the Governance of National Financial Supervision in the EU: Existing Weaknesses and a Proposal for Reform
Report
The paper is a contribution to the debate on the governance of financial supervision in Europe. It analyses the: [i] rationale for delegation of regulatory and supervisory powers to an independent…
- How Does Governmental Accounting and Financial Supervision Affect the Quality of Analysts’ Forecasts?
2 June 2025
This study investigates whether Chinese governmental accounting and financial supervision activities affect the quality of analysts’ earnings forecasts. The findings reveal that such supervision…
- Institutional Design for Financial Market Supervision: The Choice for National Systems
17 April 2014
Countries aspire to have a competitive financial system that is consistent with financial stability, inspires public confidence, and has the capacity to meet the needs of users and to foster growth…
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