<trans-abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The magnitude of the fnancial crisis, which begun in the U.S. in 2007-2008, revealed gaps in the supervisory system that were amplified in the increasingly integrated fnancial markets. Liberalisation of capital flows, which created space for functioning of international fnancial institutions of systemic importance, increased fragility of singular economies to anomalies occurring in other regions and facilitated transition of the crisis. At the same time, the ineptness of the supervisory mechanisms in handling systemic problems inherent in those realities was demonstrated. Confronting those challenges, the EU made a considerable effort to establish by 1 January 2011 the European System of Financial Supervision - a micro- and macro prudential system designed to facilitate coordination between national supervisors and enhance early warning capacities. In the United States, broad reforms were put into play by adoption of the Dodd-Frank Act. Given that effectiveness and cooperation require a convergence of standards and a similarity of institutional framework facilitates the task, the institutional analysis provided in the article enables a critical comparison of the reform efforts. It remains to be verified in practice, however, whether concerns about only the nominal “outside” nature of the reform prove accurate.</p></trans-abstract>

The magnitude of the fnancial crisis, which begun in the U.S. in 2007-2008, revealed gaps in the supervisory system that were amplified in the increasingly integrated fnancial markets. Liberalisation of capital flows, which created space for functioning of international fnancial institutions of systemic importance, increased fragility of singular economies to anomalies occurring in other regions and facilitated transition of the crisis. At the same time, the ineptness of the supervisory mechanisms in handling systemic problems inherent in those realities was demonstrated. Confronting those challenges, the EU made a considerable effort to establish by 1 January 2011 the European System of Financial Supervision - a micro- and macro prudential system designed to facilitate coordination between national supervisors and enhance early warning capacities. In the United States, broad reforms were put into play by adoption of the Dodd-Frank Act. Given that effectiveness and cooperation require a convergence of standards and a similarity of institutional framework facilitates the task, the institutional analysis provided in the article enables a critical comparison of the reform efforts. It remains to be verified in practice, however, whether concerns about only the nominal “outside” nature of the reform prove accurate.

Reforma Systemów Nadzoru Fnansowego UE i USA Ze Szczególnym Uwzględnieniem Kryzysu z Lat 2007-2008

International Journal of Management and Economics

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The magnitude of the fnancial crisis, which begun in the U.S. in 2007-2008, revealed gaps in the supervisory system that were amplified in the increasingly...

Reforma Systemów Nadzoru Fnansowego UE i USA Ze Szczególnym Uwzględnieniem Kryzysu z Lat 2007-2008

Publié en ligne: 17 oct. 2014

Pages: 130 - 151

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2014-0007

Mots clés
Lamfalussy process, de Larosière report, European fnancial supervision system, European Systemic Risk Board, European Supervisory Authority, Dodd-Frank, Consumer Protection Act

© 2013 Eliza Marta Kierska-Woźny

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Reforma Systemów Nadzoru Fnansowego UE i USA Ze Szczególnym Uwzględnieniem Kryzysu z Lat 2007-2008

Publié en ligne: 17 oct. 2014

Pages: 130 - 151

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2014-0007

Mots clésLamfalussy process, de Larosière report, European fnancial supervision system, European Systemic Risk Board, European Supervisory Authority, Dodd-Frank, Consumer Protection Act

© 2013 Eliza Marta Kierska-Woźny

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Lamfalussy process, de Larosière report, European fnancial supervision system, European Systemic Risk Board, European Supervisory Authority, Dodd-Frank, Consumer Protection Act