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Regulatory Structure, Regulatory Failure, And The S& L Debacle

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Widespread S & L failures during the 1980s required the federal government to spend over 100 billion dollars bailing out the deposit insurance fund. This paper interprets the S & L debacle as a regulatory failure. Review of the S & L debacle suggests that regulators failed to manage the deposit insurance system efficiently. But the regulatory agencies' structure appears to have played a secondary role in contributing to regulatory failure. Faced with the same incentives, objectives, and resources, regulators probably would have behaved similarly regardless of the regulatory structure.

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  • RICHARD W. Nelson, 1993. "Regulatory Structure, Regulatory Failure, And The S& L Debacle," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 11(1), pages 108-115, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:coecpo:v:11:y:1993:i:1:p:108-115
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1993.tb00375.x
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