Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53116 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2002/31
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Modern financial regulation has been about the spread of market-sensitive riskmanagement systems for banks, the spill-over of this approach to other financial institutions and the retreat of regulatory ambition. There is evidence that these trends are leading to a more fragile financial system, more prone to concentration and ‘liquidity black holes’. The most glaring effects of these trends are felt in the pro-cyclicality and volatility of capital flows to risky markets. The root of the problem is that the liquidity of financial markets requires diversity, but all these trends are serving to reduce the diversity of behaviour of market participants.
Subjects: 
financial regulation
liquidity black holes
investor behaviour
JEL: 
G14
G15
G18
ISBN: 
9291901857
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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