Article: Unregulated Banking: Chaos or Order?

This book contains the papers and prepared discussions of a conference hosted by the Midland Montagu Centre for Financial Markets of the City University Business School. In their introduction the editors pose two questions: 'Is there a role for bank regulation? And is a lender of last resort necessary?'. In their view -- and in those of some but not all of the contributors -- 'regulation seems to bring very few benefits, and is costly' (ibid.). The answer to the second question is less clear-cut. Several of the participants believe that a lender of last resort is necessary, although some pointed out that institutional innovations such as nationwide branching could reduce the ...

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