Proceedings of a conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Oct. 5-6, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Special addresses -- Cross-border banking regulation: a way forward?: the European case / Stefan Ingves -- Remarks before the conference on international financial instability / Sheila C. Bair -- Benign financial conditions, asset management, and political risks: trying to make sense of our times / Raghuram G. Rajan -- International financial instability: cross-border banking and national regulation: Chicago dinner remarks / Jean Pierre Sabourin -- Landscape of international banking and financial crises -- Current state of cross-border banking / Dirk Schoenmaker and Christiaan van Laecke -- Actual and near-miss cross-border crises / Carl-Johan Lindgren -- A review of financial stability reports / Sander Oosterloo, Jakob de Haan, and Richard Jong-A-Pin -- Discussion of landscape of international banking and financial crises / Luc Laeven -- Causes and conditions for cross-border instability transmission and threats to stability -- Cross-border contagion links and banking problems in the Nordic countries / Bent Vale -- Currency crises, (hidden) linkages, and volume / Max Bruche, Jon Danielsson, and Gabriele Galati -- What do we know about the performance and risk of hedge funds? / Triphon Phumiwasana, [et al.] -- Remarks on causes and conditions of financial instability panel / Garry Schinasi -- Prudential supervision -- Home country versus cross-border negative externalities in large banking organization failures and how to avoid them / Robert A. Eisenbeis -- Conflicts between home and host country prudential supervisors / Richard J. Herring -- Cross-border nonbank risks and regulatory cooperation / Paul Wright -- Challenges in cross-border supervision and regulation / Eric Rosengren -- Government safety net -- Bagehot and Coase meet the single European market / Vítor Gaspar -- Banking in a changing world: issues and questions in the resolution of cross-border banks / Michael Krimminger -- International banks, cross-border guarantees, and regulation / Andrew Powell and Giovanni Majnoni -- Deposit insurance, bank resolution, and lender of last resort: putting the pieces together / Thorsten Beck -- Insolvency resolution -- Cross-border resolution of banking crises / Rosa María Lastra -- Bridge banks and too big to fail: systemic risk exemption / David G. Mayes -- Prompt corrective action: is there a case for an international banking standard? / María J. Nieto and Larry D. Wall -- Insolvency resolution: key issues raised by the papers / Peter G. Brierley -- Cross-border crisis prevention: public and private strategies -- Supervisory arrangements, lolr, and crisis management in a single European banking market / Arnoud W. A. Boot -- Regulation and crisis prevention in the evolving global market / David S. Hoelscher and David C. Parker -- Derivatives governance and financial stability / David Mengle -- Cross-border crisis prevention: public and private strategies -- Gerard Caprio, Jr. -- Where to from here: policy panel -- Cross-border banking: where to from here? / Mutsuo Hatano -- Remarks on deposit insurance policy / Andrey Melnikov -- The importance of planning for large bank insolvencies / Arthur J. Murton -- Where to from here: policy panel / Guy Saint-Pierre -- Some private-sector thoughts on home/host-country supervisory issues / Lawrence R. Uhlick.

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