Completing the G-20’s Agenda
In calling for measures to “guard against systemic risk,” the G-20 summit recognized the need to regulate the entire financial system, not just individual institutions. Unfortunately, contemporary economic theory, which presumes perfect price discovery in asset markets, discourages policymakers from addressing the role of asset-price swings in managing systemic risk.
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NEW YORK – The near-complete collapse of financial systems worldwide has exposed fundamental weaknesses in their architecture and in how they are regulated. In calling for measures to “guard against systemic risk,” the G-20 summit has begun the process of reconstruction by recognizing that the system in its entirety, not just individual institutions, must be regulated.