June 22, 2009
The Obama Administration's Proposal for Financial Regulatory Reform
Garett Jones
Senior Research Fellow
Houman Shadab
Former Affiliated Scholar
Lawrence J. White
Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics, New York UniversityMargaret Polski
Todd Zywicki
Senior Fellow, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Tyler Cowen
Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University
Key materials
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To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.In response to the Obama administration's proposal to reform the country's financial regulatory system, this research summary highlights key points on proposed regulations about systemic risk, derivatives, securitization, and consumer protection, by several of Mercatus Center's Financial Markets Working Group scholars. This resource will help ensure that sound academic research informs the current debate about the restructuring of the financial regulatory system.