Les contours de l'activité bancaire et l'avenir de sa régulation

Aftermaths of banking, sovereign, and other crises often look alike : After years of neglect and quasi-laissez-faire leading to a crisis, policymakers and scholars work assiduously on new schemes that will prevent the next crisis. This process reflects political immediacy as much as a long-term perspective. The paper is drawn from a conference, the title of which, ?Rethinking Macro Policy II : First Steps and Early Lessons?, rightly shows the limits of our knowledge in these areas. It discusses three kinds of reforms in the making in financial regulation : Structural reforms (among which governance and the interaction with shadow banking), solvency and liquidity regulation, and institutional/supervisory reforms.