Financial Regulation and Externalities: Efficiency vs Politics
Fundamentally, financial regulation aims at facilitating access to finance.From an efficiency perspective, this means that entrepreneurs as well as consumers should get financing at competitive rates. However, the rewards of financial regulation are not necessarily equally distributed, an externalit...
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cairn-RINDU1_194_0069RINDU1Annales des Mines - Réalités industrielles https://stm.cairn.info/revue-realites-industrielles-2019-4-page-69?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rindu1.194.0069 Financial Regulation and Externalities: Efficiency vs Politics Hertig, Gerard2019 fre Annales des Mines - Réalités industrielles | ovembre 2019 | 4 | 2019-11-04 | p. 69-71 | 1148-7941 RINDU1_19457 Fundamentally, financial regulation aims at facilitating access to finance.From an efficiency perspective, this means that entrepreneurs as well as consumers should get financing at competitive rates. However, the rewards of financial regulation are not necessarily equally distributed, an externality that is likely to favor some financial intermediaries or industrial firms over others. Financial crisis regulation tackles externalities more directly. In particular, prudential regulation generally targets those firms that are most likely to be a source of systemic risk – The aim being to impose the internalization of externalities.However, efficiency is not the sole driver of financial regulation. Lawmakers and enforcement agents may favor specific interest groups or take into account fairness considerations. This kind of intervention is likely to produce externalities by having an impact on the production and distribution of goods and services. In particular, regulatory interventions to facilitate access to finance in specific industries is likely to distort competition within or across industries.Cairn free access |
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Fundamentally, financial regulation aims at facilitating access to finance.From an efficiency perspective, this means that entrepreneurs as well as consumers should get financing at competitive rates. However, the rewards of financial regulation are not necessarily equally distributed, an externality that is likely to favor some financial intermediaries or industrial firms over others. Financial crisis regulation tackles externalities more directly. In particular, prudential regulation generally targets those firms that are most likely to be a source of systemic risk – The aim being to impose the internalization of externalities.However, efficiency is not the sole driver of financial regulation. Lawmakers and enforcement agents may favor specific interest groups or take into account fairness considerations. This kind of intervention is likely to produce externalities by having an impact on the production and distribution of goods and services. In particular, regulatory interventions to facilitate access to finance in specific industries is likely to distort competition within or across industries. |
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