PinnedStephenMatteoMillerinFinRegRagSome Mid-Term Perspectives on Financial Sector DeregulationThe current administration has as a stated policy objective to implement “historic deregulation” across the economy, including the…Jul 14, 2020Jul 14, 2020
StephenMatteoMillerinFinRegRagEquity Financing and the Future of GreenovationAs debates mount in the U.S. over how best to regulate the financial sector to address climate change, the potential harm from banking…Dec 23, 2020Dec 23, 2020
StephenMatteoMillerinFinRegRagConcerned About Bank Climate Risk Exposures? More Equity’s An OptionIn a recent blog-post, I discussed 1) why firms in certain industries (not just banks) may be deemed “Too Big to Fail” (TBTF), and 2) how…Dec 23, 2020Dec 23, 2020
StephenMatteoMillerinFinRegRagWhich Trading Assets Drove Too-Big-to-Fail Subsidies During the 2007–2009 Crisis?After the 2007–2009 crisis, global initiatives led in part by former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker highlighted proprietary trading…Dec 17, 2020Dec 17, 2020
StephenMatteoMillerinFinRegRagWhy Certain Corporations Get Bailed Out & What You Might Do About itWith the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing government-mandated shutdowns of commerce bringing economic activity in many sectors worldwide to a…Oct 16, 2020Oct 16, 2020
StephenMatteoMillerinFinRegRagWhat Contributed to Changes in Regulatory Restrictions Since 2016?In my previous blogpost, I showed that the parts of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) that concern the financial sector continued to…Jul 20, 2020Jul 20, 2020
StephenMatteoMillerinFinRegRagOn the Rising Regulatory Burden of Basel-Style Bank Capital RequirementsDuring the last ten years, we’ve lived through a banking crisis, an overhaul of the bank regulatory framework through the 2010 Dodd-Frank…Dec 13, 2018Dec 13, 2018
StephenMatteoMillerinFinRegRagDid the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act De-Regulate?Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of the enactment of the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, otherwise known as the…Nov 13, 2018Nov 13, 2018
StephenMatteoMillerinFinRegRagThe Recourse Rule and Its Role in the Last Crisis: An UpdateLast year, I wrote a blog post in which I discussed my findings from a working paper that showed how the so-called “Recourse Rule,” a…Sep 18, 2018Sep 18, 2018
StephenMatteoMillerinFinRegRagWill the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act” Cause A Repeat Crisis?Note: Edited on November 6th.May 31, 2018May 31, 2018