December 2018: New VoxEU Column – Market liquidity, leverage, and regulation ten years after the crisis

Tobias Adrian, John Kiff 01 December 2018

The financial system has undergone far-reaching changes since the 2008 Global Crisis. This column casts those changes in terms of shifts in the way financial intermediaries manage their balance sheets, and also discusses the regulatory reform agenda and reviews the impact of regulations on market liquidity and credit availability. The current evidence suggests that the financial system has become safer, at limited unintended cost.

 

Link: https://voxeu.org/article/market-liquidity-leverage-and-regulation-ten-years-after-crisis