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OverviewThis book aims to unpack the complex economic relationships between law, asset price bubbles and financial regulation. The failure to thoroughly understand these interactions has had severe consequences, as law has proven ill-equipped to prevent or mitigate financial crises caused by bubbles. Bubbles represent prolonged, but unsustainable booms in the price of assets, such as securities or real estate. They form due to herd behavior by investors and other economic feedback loops. These same feedback loops render financial regulations designed for normal market conditions ineffective or counterproductive. Unpacking the interactions of bubbles and law reveals common threads among the epidemic of financial fraud in the Enron era, the subprime crisis, and previous financial crises throughout the world. A systematic examination of these interactions points to reforms for making regulation more effective and markets more stable. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Erik F. GerdingPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 1.200kg ISBN: 9780415779395ISBN 10: 0415779391 Pages: 544 Publication Date: 15 November 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction: The Regulatory Instability Hypothesis Part 1: The Economics and Legal History of Bubbles 1. The Economics of Bubbles 2. A Legal History of Bubbles Part II: The Regulatory Instability Hypothesis 3. Boom, Bust, and the Regulatory Stimulus Cycle in Financial Markets 4. Epidemics of Fraud and Compliance Rot 5. Regulatory Arbitrage Frenzies and the Hydraulics of Investor Demand 6. Deregulation and Regulatory Arbitrage Spirals: a Dance for Two 7. Procyclical Regulation & Herd-Promoting Regulation Part III: Fighting Bubbles, Feeding Bubbles 8. Anti-bubble Laws 9. Credit and Leverage: The Monetary Dimension of Financial Regulation Part IV: The Panic of 2007-2008 as Master Class in Regulatory Instability: The Shadow Banking Bubble 10. The Shadow Banking System: a Thumbnail Sketch 11. '""Lawyers, Runs, and Money"": The Rise and Collapse of Shadow Banking Part V: Lessons and Solutions: 12. Conclusion: Adaptive Laws and Channeling Politics: Designing Robust Regulations and Institutions"ReviewsWhy do central bankers and regulators seem unable to control the cycles of investor greed and fear that give rise to bubbles and crises and allow the same mistakes to be made over and over again? In Law, Bubbles, and Financial Regulation Erik Gerding draws on his encyclopedic knowledge of history, economics and law to offer an answer. Anyone interested in the ever fascinating story of financial booms and busts should read this provocative and insightful book - Liaquat Ahamed, winner of the the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for Lords of Finance Professor Gerding explains how bubbles contribute to the erosion of legal rules by regulators and market actors, and how such erosion in turn contributes to increased risk in the financial system. By exploring the multiple channels through which this erosion occurs, Gerding helps us to think about how to better structure the financial regulatory system to be more resilient going forward - Michael Barr, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and former Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Treasury Department Erik Gerding's insightful new book cuts through a huge maze of arguments about the causes of the 2008-2009 financial crisis that devastated economies around the globe. He provides a subtle, sophisticated, and complex, yet clear and highly readable hypothesis about why financial crises happen from time to time in capitalist economies...A must read for anyone interested in the health and safety of the world's financial markets! - Margaret M. Blair, the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise at Vanderbilt University Law School The message of Professor Gerding's complete and compelling retelling of the history of financial crises is straightforward: law matters. He shows that legal rules are central to the buildup of bubbles, instigating - instead of mitigating - mispricing. Regulatory changes explicitly encourage speculative activities and the formation of shadow markets, and also are an implicit accomplice in promoting regulatory arbitrage, centralized private power, and information asymmetry, all of which drive financial mania. Gerding's coverage of the facts and causes of bubbles is as comprehensive as the writings of Hyman Minsky and Charles Kindleberger, and adds an important legal perspective that is missing from those classic accounts. Indeed, Gerding's regulatory instability hypothesis is a worthy peer to the leading theories of macroeconomic and cyclical causes of bubbles. Law, Bubbles, and Financial Regulation concludes with a valuable and thoughtful array of policy recommendations, and belongs on the bookshelves of modern regulators, who will benefit from thinking not only about the details of the most recent crisis, but about how they are enabling the next one. - Frank Partnoy, George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance, University of San Diego School of Law Law, Bubbles, and Financial Regulation teaches us how much law matters for the formation of bubbles. The book adds a much needed legal and political dimension to the debate among economists on the causes of and cures for asset price bubbles and financial crises. It examines how the inflation of a bubble undermines financial laws and skews the political system. Economists and policymakers need to read the book to understand how current financial reform efforts may fail during the next bubble and crisis. - Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics and International Business, NYU Stern School of Business and Founder, Roubini Global Economics Monitor Author InformationErik F. Gerding is Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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