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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973829303321

Autore

Quintyn Marc

Titolo

Will they Sing the Same Tune? Measuring Convergence in the new European System of Financial Supervisors / / Marc Quintyn, Donato Masciandaro, MarĂ­a Nieto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612843563

9781462308347

1462308341

9781452720807

1452720800

9781282843561

1282843567

9781451872897

1451872895

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (45 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

MasciandaroDonato

NietoMarĂ­a

Disciplina

332.1;332.1068

Soggetti

Finance - State supervision

Banks and banking, Central - State supervision

Bank supervision

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks and banking

Banks

Business and Financial

Depository Institutions

Economic & financial crises & disasters

Financial Crises

Financial crises

Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation

Financial regulation and supervision

Financial Risk Management

Financial services industry

Financial services law & regulation

General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation

Law and legislation

Legal support in revenue administration



Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Public finance & taxation

Public Finance

Revenue

State supervision

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July 2009".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. A European Supervisory Structure is Born; III. Review of Supervisory Architectures; A. Closer analysis of the EU supervisory landscape; B. Potential policy implications of polarization; IV. Convergence in Supervisory Governance; A. Measuring Independence; B. Measuring Accountability; C. Is There Governance Convergence Within the EU?; V. Conclusions and Policy Considerations; References; Figures; 1 Financial Supervisory Regimes: number of reforms per year (1998-2008); 2 FSU Index distribution; 3 CBFA Index distribution; 4 Financial Supervision Regimes

5 Institutional Independence: Cross-country convergence6 Regulatory & Supervisory Independence: Cross-country convergence; 7 Budgetary independence: Cross-country convergence; 8 Political accountability: Cross-country convergence; 9 Judiciary accountability: Cross-country convergence; 10 Transparency: Cross-country convergence; 11 Total independence: Cross-country convergence; 12 Overall accountability Cross-country convergence; 13 Independence and Accountability: scatter-plot; 14 Independence and Accountability inside and outside the Central Bank

14A: Independence Indices inside and outside the Central Bank14B: Accountability Indices inside and outside the Central Bank; Tables; 1. The Institutional Indicators; 2. Independence Criteria; 3. Accountability Criteria; Annexes; Annex - The European Framework for Safeguarding Financial Stability

Sommario/riassunto

In June 2009 a new financial supervisory framework for the European Union (EU) was endorsed, consisting of a macro- and a micro-prudential pillar. The latter is composed of a Steering Committee, a supranational layer and a network of national supervisory authorities at the bottom, de facto establishing a complex multiple principals-multiple agents network. This paper focuses on the network of national agencies. Starting from an analysis of supervisory architectures and governance arrangements, we assess to what extent lack of convergence could undermine efficient and effective supervision. The main conclusion is that harmonization of governance arrangements towards best practice would better align supervisors' incentive structures and, hence, be beneficial for the quality of supervision.