Financial Regulation

by Charles A.E. Goodhart, Philipp Hartmann, David T. Llewellyn

Financial Regulation presents an important restatement of the purposes and objectives of financial regulation. The authors provide details and data on the scale, nature and costs of regulatory problems around the world, and look at what sort of countries and sectors require special attention and policies. Key topics covered
* the need to recast the form of regulation
* incentive structures for financial regulation
* proportionality
* new techniques for risk management
* regulation in emerging countries
* crisis management
* prospects for financial regulation in the future.

272 pages, Paperback

First published June 8, 1998

About the author

Prof. Charles Albert Eric Goodhart, Ph.D. (Harvard University, 1963; B.A., Cambridge University, 1960, CBE, FBA is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics. Before joining the London School of Economics in 1985, he worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980.

During 1986, Prof. Goodhart helped to found, with Prof. Mervyn King, the Financial Markets Group at London School of Economics, which began its operation at the start of 1987. In 1997, he was appointed one of the outside independent members of the Bank of England’s new Monetary Policy Committee until May 2000.

Taken from here.