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Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation
Published: 05/20/2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01460.x
ALAN D. MORRISON, LUCY WHITE
We analyze the desirability of level playing fields in international financial regulation. In general, level playing fields impose the standards of the weakest regulator upon the best‐regulated economies. However, they may be desirable when capital is mobile because they counter a cherry‐picking effect that lowers the size and efficiency of banks in weaker economies. Hence, while a laissez faire policy favors the better‐regulated economy, level playing fields are good for weaker regulators. We show that multinational banking mitigates the cherry‐picking effect, and reduces the damage that a level playing field causes in the better‐regulated economy.
The Demise of Investment Banking Partnerships: Theory and Evidence
Published: 01/10/2008 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01317.x
ALAN D. MORRISON, WILLIAM J. WILHELM
In 1970 the New York Stock Exchange relaxed rules that prohibited the public incorporation of member firms. Investment banking concerns went public in waves, with Goldman Sachs the last of the bulge bracket banks to float. We explain the pattern of investment bank flotations. We argue that partnerships foster the formation of human capital and we use technological advances that undermine the role of human capital to explain the partnership's going‐public decision. We support our theory using a new data set of investment bank partnership statistics.