Financial Innovation and System Design Mario Tonveronachi

The most relevant financial innovations have been the result of active policies pursued by public authorities, which have intrinsic to them, a specific financial design based on the freedom to create and absorb financial risks. The excesses that are considered as the main culprits of the current crisis are therefore a part of the physiology and not of the pathology of the wanted financial morphology. As a consequence, no regulatory reform can be effective without radical changes in the system design. A general outline of an alternative approach to regulation is presented.

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