Macroprudential Oversight : Monitoring the Financial System.

Provides background on macroprudential policy to monitor entire financial system and its vulnerability to systemic risk, to monitor system for early warning signs of financial distress, to conduct stress-testing exercises, and to provide financial advice to other regulatory agencies. Reviews interme...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2009.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Administrative agencies. Financial institutions. Finance > Law and legislation. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Description
Summary:	Provides background on macroprudential policy to monitor entire financial system and its vulnerability to systemic risk, to monitor system for early warning signs of financial distress, to conduct stress-testing exercises, and to provide financial advice to other regulatory agencies. Reviews intermediation and financial innovation; discusses benefits and limitations of microprudential oversight, to regulate individual financial institutions; and outlines benefits and limitations of macroprudential oversight.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.