Regulatory separation theory indicates that a system with multiple regulators leads to less forbearance and limits producer gains while a model of banking regulation developed by Dell’Ariccia and Marquez (2006) predicts the opposite. Fragmented regulation of the US life insurance industry...

Functional Dependency Network Analysis (FDNA) is a tool developed by engineer management researchers for developing systems that are more resilient and less prone to catastrophic failure. Considering financial networks as a system-of-systems, we introduce FDNA for analyzing non-engineering...