Tag Archives: Dodd-Frank

Are We Protected From Another Collapse?

Posted on 25 February 2013 by admin

Banks, Securitization & Incentives by Elliott Morss, Morss Global Finance Introduction The bank crisis was serious – $52 trillion in capital losses leading to the largest global recession since 1929. We should work hard to insure it does not happen … Continue reading →

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The Great Debate©: Will Dodd-Frank be Effective?

Posted on 5 March 2012 by admin

Written by Elliott Morss, Bradley G. Lewis and William K. Black Editor’s note: The question of whether the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act will be effective in reducing systemic risk in the financial sector was brought into new focus by a a … Continue reading →

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Reforming Repo Rules

Posted on 9 January 2012 by admin

by Guest Author Mark Roe, Project Syndicate and Harvard Law School CAMBRIDGE – Sometimes, we just don’t learn. After the financial crisis, the United States enacted the Dodd-Frank Act to overhaul American financial regulation, with the aim of reducing the … Continue reading →

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FDIC’s Frank-Dodd Fantasy

Posted on 22 April 2011 by admin

The FDIC has released a document that purports to show how it could have successfully resolved Lehman Brothers using its new Title II resolution authority granted under Dodd Frank.

All I can say is that this is an interesting piece of creative writing. The Lehman counterfactual rests on a series of assumptions, which as I will discuss shortly, look pretty questionable.
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