Crisis Prevention and Crisis Management: The Role of Regulatory Governance

September 1, 2002

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Udaibir S Das, and Marc G Quintyn. Crisis Prevention and Crisis Management: The Role of Regulatory Governance, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

Good regulatory governance in the financial system is a critical component of financial stability. Research on the topic has not been very systematic and deep. This paper first defines four key components of regulatory governance-independence, accountability, transparency, and integrity. It explores the quality of regulatory governance based on the financial system evaluations under the Financial Sector Assessment Programs (FSAPs), which are the first and most comprehensive effort to analyze regulatory governance issues. In terms of independence, banking supervisors are ahead of the others, while securities regulators perform better on transparency. Insurance regulators are weak in all the regulatory governance components. On the whole, regulators still have a long way to go in terms of practicing good governance. The paper also discusses governance issues specific to crisis management and concludes with an agenda for further research.

Subject: Banking, Economic sectors, Financial crises, Financial markets, Financial sector, Financial Sector Assessment Program, Financial sector policy and analysis, Legal support in revenue administration, Payment systems, Revenue administration

Keywords: Accountability, Africa, Agency independence, Central bank, Corporate governance, East Asia, Europe, Financial sector, Financial Sector Assessment Program, Financial sector crisis management, Financial sector supervision, Global, Governance arrangement, Governance framework, Governance issue, Governance practice, Governance structure, Integrity, Legal support in revenue administration, Payment systems, Regulatory authority, Regulatory governance, Transparency, Transparency practice, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

68
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2002/163
Stock No:

WPIEA1632002
ISBN:

9781451857948
ISSN:

1018-5941

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