After the destructive impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, many believe that pre-crisis financial market regulation did not take the "big picture" of the system suffciently into account and, subsequently, financial supervision mainly "missed the forest for the trees". As a result, the...

Introduction -- Quality of Bank Capital, Competition, and Risk-Taking: Some International Evidence -- Banking Sector Reform, Competition, and Bank Stability: An Empirical Analysis of Transition Countries -- The Impact of Bank Regulation and Supervision on Competition: Evidence from Emerging...

This paper considers and assesses various explanations attributed as principal factors of the recent Financial Crisis. In particular, it focuses on two principal regulatory tools which constitute the basis of the framework promulgated by recent Basel Committee's initiatives, that is, Basel III....