Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53459 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Discussion Paper No. 81
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
This paper looks at the issue of reforming financial regulatory structures from the New Institutional Economics perspective. In particular, it examines how the broader institutional environment prevailing in developing countries like the Philippines may affect the institutional arrangements for financial regulation, and how these might be taken into consideration when designing or reforming financial regulatory structures. The paper argues that the state of financial conglomerates in the Philippines does not warrant a shift toward integrated financial supervision. Instead, any effort to reform the financial supervisory structure must explicitly address the country's most fundamental need, which is to strengthen institutions and governance structures. Key institutional characteristics must already be in place to undertake such a reform successfully, including sound political and legal systems and enforcement mechanisms. That being said, properly structured independent regulatory agencies in the financial sector can play a part in strengthening the overall regulatory environment.
JEL: 
G20
G28
H11
O16
P16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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