Title: Financial instability and macro-prudential supervision

Authors: Minas Pediaditakis, Cleanthis Thomaidis

Addresses: Technological Education Institute of Crete, Stavromenos 71500 Heraklion, Greece. ' Technological Education Institute of Crete, Stavromenos 71500 Heraklion, Greece

Abstract: Financial liberalisation and deregulation have increased financial instability and crises. While the importance of fundamental weaknesses has decreased over time, the impact of the deregulation of the financial and, especially, the banking system has become preponderant. This paper examines the dynamics of the main factors of vulnerability interacting with the financial system and concludes that, in order to prevent financial excesses and systemic malfunction leading to crises, both the preservation of macroeconomic balances and the adoption of a more efficient regulatory/supervisory framework are needed. The latter would be greatly improved by the adoption of a system-wide vision of financial instability and an inter-temporal assessment of the financial risk, in the context of a still-emerging new approach, primarily within the Bank for International Settlements.

Keywords: Bank for International Settlements; BIS; financial crises; financial instability; financial liberalisation; financial services management; inter-temporal financial risk; macroeconomic imbalances; macro-prudential supervision; regulatory framework; supervisory framework; system-wide financial risk.

DOI: 10.1504/IJFSM.2008.022555

International Journal of Financial Services Management, 2008 Vol.3 No.3/4, pp.310 - 334

Published online: 14 Jan 2009 *

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