Do financial regulation advisors help their clients become more profitable? In this paper, we present a model where financial service firms may add to their own compliance teams or hire outside compliance advisors. We derive the conditions under which a financial services firm will want to hire...

Cover -- Contents -- Glossary -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF THE INSTITUTIONAL SETTING AND MARKET STRUCTURE -- PRECONDITIONS FOR EFFECTIVE BANKING SUPERVISION -- A. Sound and Sustainable Macroeconomic Policies -- B. Well Established Framework for Financial Stability Policy...

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Contemporary bank governance is criticized for manager-dominated (insider) boards of directors, but from the beginning of the nineteenth century, bank presidents appear also to have operated as chairmen of the boards of directors. However, the managers were constrained by a variety of rules that...