1.The reform of financial regulations
Everything the IMF wanted to know about financial regulation and wasn’t afraid to ask
Sheila Bair
It is time for a reappraisal of the basic principles of financial regulation
Hyun Song Shin
The macroprudential approach to regulation and supervision
Claudio Borio
Complexity kills
Jon Danielsson
The risks of trading by banks
Arnoud Boot and Lev Ratnovski
Investment banking
Charles A.E. Goodhart
2.The role, calculation and levels of capital
The illusion of bank capital
Raihan Zamil
Bank capital requirements: Risk weights you cannot trust and the implications for Basel III
Jens Hagendorff and Francesco Vallascas
Banking on the average: A new way to regulate banks
Hans Gersbach
How much capital should banks have?
Lev Ratnovski
Is a 25% bank equity requirement really a no-brainer?
Charles W Calomiris
3.On Basel III
Do not be detoured by bankers and their friends; our future financial salvation lies in the direction of Basel
Avinash Persaud
Basel regulation needs to be rethought in the age of derivatives, Part I
Adrian Blundell-Wignall and Paul E Atkinson
The liquidity coverage ratio under siege
Stefan W Schmitz
Governance of banks
Luc Laeven and Ross Levine
Implementation of Basel III in the US will bring back the regulatory arbitrage problems under Basel I
Takeo Hoshi
4.Wider Considerations
Big banks and macroeconomic outcomes, Franziska Bremus
Claudia M. Buch, Katheryn Russ and Monika Schnitzer
Sudden financial arrest
Ricardo Caballero
Shadow banking: Economics and policy priorities. Stijn Claessens, Zoltan Pozsar
Lev Ratnovski and Manmohan Singh
The fallacy of moving the over-the-counter derivatives market to central counterparties
Manmohan Singh
The need for special resolution regimes for financial institutions
Martin Čihák and Erlend W Nier
Politics and governance
Lobbying and the financial crisis
Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra and Thierry Tressel
Tax banks to discourage systemic-risk creation, not to fund bailouts
Enrico Perotti
Saving the banks, but not reckless bankers
Giancarlo Spagnolo