Birkbeck 2.13 Option: Financial Institutions and Regulation. Hugh Goodacre.

 

LECTURE NOTES.

 

1. Financial system in crisis: the background

2. Financial institutions: the market for fund management as an example.

3. Financial regulation.

4. The market for insurance and its regulation.

5. Capital markets and information. Insider trading.

6. Capital markets: information revelation; information endogenous.

7. Capital markets and management incentives.

8. Intermediation.

9. Excessive risk-taking.

10. Liquidity requirements and systemic risk.

11. Bank regulation.

12. Bank regulation and financial architecture.

 

 

 

You may like to see the Lecture outlines for 2006-7 , but note that changes took place last year and many more are likely this year.