Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

In this volume, what are thought to be some of the more important aspects of the Dodd–Frank Act are discussed from a number of perspectives, including that of industry scholars who have been actively involved in evaluating financial regulation, regulators who are responsible for implementing the reform, financial policy experts representing think tanks and banking trade associations, congressmen and congressional staff involved with developing the legislation, and legal scholars. The volume summarizes the act, evaluates how the new regulations are being implemented and how the implementation process is progressing, and discusses modifications that, in the views of the authors, might be needed to more effectively achieve the stated goals of the legislation.Contents:

Introduction and Summary of the Act:

The Dodd–Frank Act: An Overview (Douglas D Evanoff and William F Moeller)

Critical Assessment of the Act:

Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd–Frank Act (Matthew Richardson)

Financial Stability via Regulation:

Financial Stability Regulation (Daniel K Tarullo)
Implementing Dodd-Frank: Identifying and Mitigating Systemic Risk (Mark Van Der Weide)
Implementing the Dodd–Frank Act: Progress to Date and Recommendations for the Future (Scott D O'Malia)
Dodd–Frank Act Implementation: Well Into It and No Further Ahead (Wayne A Abernathy)

Financial Stability via Efficient Failure Resolution:

We Must Resolve to End Too-Big-To-Fail (Sheila C Bair)
The Orderly Liquidation of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Under the Dodd–Frank Act (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
Implementing Dodd–Frank: Orderly Resolution (Martin J Gruenberg)
Resolving Globally Active, Systemically Important, Financial Institutions (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England)

An Alternative View: Financial Stability via Bank Breakups:

Do SIFIs Have a Future? (Thomas M Hoenig)
Ending Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts: Dodd–Frank Promises More Than It Can Deliver (Richard W Fisher and Harvey Rosenblum)
Solving the Too-Big-To-Fail Problem (William C Dudley)

Consumer Protection:

Partnering: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and State Attorneys General (Richard Cordray)
Prepared Remarks Before the National Association of Attorneys General (Richard Cordray)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: The Solution or the Problem? (Brenden D Soucy)

Was Dodd–Frank Necessary? Needed?:

The Financial Crisis and “Too-Big-To-Fail” (Barney Frank and the Minority Staff of the House Financial Services Committee)
A Dissent From the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (Peter J Wallison)



Readership: Financial economists, as reading material for beginner to intermediate courses in Finance and Economics for undergraduates and MBA students, general public, and policy makers interested in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010).