Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System (Wiley Finance)

418 Pages·2009·2.96 MB·English

by  Viral V. Acharya

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how to go about reforming our broken fi nancial system. Plainly, the insights of fi nancial
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theory need to be better adapted to the practical requirements of maintaining reasonable o a 2008 transformed the United States and world
stability of markets and institutions. Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed n economies. As each day’s headlines brought stories
System helps point the way.” of bank failures and rescues, government policies
VIRAL V. ACHARYA is Professor of Finance at
—Paul Volcker, Chairman of Economic Recovery Advisory Board and former R drawn and redrawn against the backdrop of an
New York University Stern School of Business and
Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979–1987)
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London Business School. He is Academic Advisor
seemed to be discarded almost as soon as they were
to the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and “Although we are yet in the midst of a gigantic global fi nancial crisis, the academics who S F I N A N C I A L
proposed, a group of thirty-three academics at New
Philadelphia and Academic Director of the Coller contributed to this timely and comprehensive compendium have provided us with not T
only an excellent analysis on each topic, but also timely recommendations as to how to York University Stern School of Business began
Institute of Private Equity. Professor Acharya earned O
move forward responsibly to develop the next generation of our fi nancial-service industry tackling the hard questions behind the headlines.
a Bachelor of Technology in computer science and
architecture.” R Representing fi elds of fi nance, economics, and
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,
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Mumbai, and a PhD in fi nance from NYU Stern. N
winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics Cooley and Vice Dean Ingo Walter—shaped eighteen
He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
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MATTHEW RICHARDSON is the Charles E. Simon as well as proposed solutions to ensure it doesn’t happen again. A must-read for anyone w S T A focused solutions to the problems within a common
Professor of Financial Economics and the Sidney interested or involved in the fi nancial markets.” to F L I T Y framework. In December, with great urgency, they

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just repaired but, more importantly, until its institutional framework is restructured and new a N Repair a Failed System, is the culmination of their
received his PhD in fi nance from Stanford University rules of fi nancial behavior are put in place. This book, the work of prominent academicians F work. For policymakers and business executives
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from a leading school of business, makes an important contribution to the framing of the
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the University of California at Los Angeles. He lives problems and provides specifi c recommendations for their solutions. What makes this book e I
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nowned experts in the area. Together, they constitute an indispensable read for anyone inter- How to Repair a
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To better understand the origins of the current
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Jacket Design: Michael J. Freeland Chicago Booth School of Business, and former Chief Economist
fi nancial health, don’t miss this important and
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timely work. Edited by Viral Acharya and Matthew
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the best thinking of fi nance and economics faculty
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How to Repair a Failed System
VIRAL V. ACHARYA
MATTHEW RICHARDSON
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To Manjiree
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To my best friend and love of my life, Julie, and
our three wonders, Jack, Charlie, and Lucas.
—M.R.
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Contents
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
PROLOGUE:ABIRD’S-EYEVIEW
TheFinancialCrisisof2007–2009:CausesandRemedies 1
ViralV.Acharya,ThomasPhilippon,MatthewRichardson,
andNourielRoubini
PARTONE
CausesoftheFinancialCrisisof2007–2009 57
MatthewRichardson
CHAPTER1
MortgageOriginationandSecuritizationintheFinancialCrisis 61
DwightJaffee,AnthonyW.Lynch,MatthewRichardson,
andStijnVanNieuwerburgh
CHAPTER2
HowBanksPlayedtheLeverageGame 83
ViralV.AcharyaandPhilippSchnabl
CHAPTER3
TheRatingAgencies:IsRegulationtheAnswer? 101
MatthewRichardsonandLawrenceJ.White
PARTTWO
FinancialInstitutions 117
MatthewRichardson
CHAPTER4
WhattoDoabouttheGovernment-SponsoredEnterprises? 121
DwightJaffee,MatthewRichardson,StijnVanNieuwerburgh,
LawrenceJ.White,andRobertE.Wright
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viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER5
EnhancedRegulationofLarge,ComplexFinancialInstitutions 139
AnthonySaunders,RoyC.Smith,andIngoWalter
CHAPTER6
HedgeFundsintheAftermathoftheFinancialCrisis 157
StephenJ.Brown,MarcinKacperczyk,AlexanderLjungqvist,
AnthonyW.Lynch,LasseH.Pedersen,and
MatthewRichardson
PARTTHREE
Governance,Incentives,andFairValueAccountingOverview 179
ViralV.AcharyaandRangarajanK.Sundaram
CHAPTER7
CorporateGovernanceintheModernFinancialSector 185
ViralV.Acharya,JenniferN.Carpenter,XavierGabaix,
KoseJohn,MatthewRichardson,MartiG.Subrahmanyam,
RangarajanK.Sundaram,andEitanZemel
CHAPTER8
RethinkingCompensationinFinancialFirms 197
GianLucaClementi,ThomasF.Cooley,MatthewRichardson,
andIngoWalter
CHAPTER9
FairValueAccounting:PolicyIssuesRaisedbytheCreditCrunch 215
StephenG.Ryan
PARTFOUR
Derivatives,ShortSelling,andTransparency 229
ViralV.Acharya
CHAPTER10
Derivatives:TheUltimateFinancialInnovation 233
ViralV.Acharya,MenachemBrenner,RobertF.Engle,
AnthonyW.Lynch,andMatthewRichardson