Holistic Regulation

“We must have a strategy that regulates the financial system as a whole, in a holistic way, not just its individual components.” Ben S. Bernanke, “Financial Reform to Address Systemic Risk” at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., March 10, 2009   In a 2010 short paper, Brunnermeier, Hansen, Kashyap, Krishnamurthy and Lo (2010)…