Designing financial supervision institutions : independence, accountability and governance /

Designing financial supervision institutions : independence, accountability and governance / edited by Donato Masciandaro and Marc Quintyn ; in association with the Internaional Monetary Fund (IMF) - Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, c2007. - xxvi, 504 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Robust regulators and their political masters : independence and accountability in theory / Marc Quintyn and Michael W. Taylor -- Independence and accountability in supervision : general principles and European setting / Lorenzo Bini Smaghi -- The fear of freedom : politicians and the independence and accountability of financial supervisors in practice / Marc Quintyn, Silvia Ramirez and Michael W. Taylor -- Independence and accountability : why politics matters / Johnathan Westrup -- Governance in banking supervision : theory and practices / Marco Arnone, Salim M. Darbar and Alessandro Gambini -- Financial supervision architectures and central bank independence / Andreas Freytag and Donato Masciandaro -- Architectures of supervisory authorities and banking supervision / Marco Arnone and Alessandro Gambini -- Experience with integrated supervisors : governance and quality of supervision / Martin Cihak and Richard Podpiera -- Financial supervisors : alternative models / Giorgio Di Giorgio and Carmine Di Noia -- Budgetary governance of banking supervision : a primer / Donato Masciandaro, Maria Nieto and Henriette Prast -- Bureaucrats or politicians? / Alberto Alesina and Guido Tabellini -- Agency problems in banking supervision / Robert A. Eisenbeis.

9781847202161 (hardcover)

2007011643


Banks and banking--State supervision.
Financial institutions--State supervision.
Banks and banking, Central.

HG1725 / .D47 2007

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