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Rocky Times: New Perspectives on Financial Stability

2012, Yasuyuki Fuchita, Richard J. Herring and Robert E. Litan, eds.

Give the JOBS Act the Benefit of Any Doubts

March 29, 2012, Martin Neil Baily and Robert E. Litan

Identifying and Regulating Systemically Important Financial Institutions: The Risks of Under and Over Identification and Regulation

January 16, 2011, Douglas J. Elliott and Robert E. Litan

Proposed Limits on ATM Fees and Credit Card Interest Rates: Counter-Productive Punishment That Goes Too Far

May 13, 2010, Robert E. Litan

The Derivatives Dealers’ Club and Derivatives Markets Reform

April 7, 2010, Robert E. Litan

In Defense of Much, But Not All, Financial Innovation

February 17, 2010, Robert E. Litan

The Future of Financial Reform

December 2, 2009, Robert E. Litan

Regulating and Resolving Institutions Considered “Too Big to Fail”

May 6, 2009, Martin Neil Baily and Robert E. Litan

Risk, Reward and the Road to Economic Recovery

April 20, 2009

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Three Cheers for Treasury’s Plan for Regulating Systemic Risk

March 30, 2009, Robert E. Litan

Regulating Systemic Risk

March 30, 2009, Robert E. Litan

Regulating Insurance After the Crisis

March 4, 2009, Robert E. Litan

Where Were the Watchdogs? Systemic Risk and the Breakdown of Financial Governance

March 4, 2009, Robert E. Litan

Bailout Q&A: Fix Regulators, Liquidate Fannie and Freddie?

February 17, 2009, Robert E. Litan

Fixing Finance: A Roadmap for Reform

February 2009, Martin Neil Baily and Robert E. Litan

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The Origins of the Financial Crisis

November 2008, Martin Neil Baily, Matthew S. Johnson and Robert E. Litan

Brookings-Tokyo Club-Wharton Conference

October 16, 2008

Making the Rescue Package Work: Asset and Equity Purchases

October 10, 2008, Martin Neil Baily and Robert E. Litan

A Brief Guide To Fixing Finance

September 22, 2008, Martin Neil Baily and Robert E. Litan

Government Bailout: Changing the Face of Capitalism

September 17, 2008, Robert E. Litan

How the Great Credit Squeeze Happened and How to Prevent Another

May 16, 2008

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The Great Credit Squeeze: How It Happened, How to Prevent Another

May 16, 2008, Martin Neil Baily, Douglas W. Elmendorf and Robert E. Litan

Pooling Money

The Future of Mutual Funds

2008, Robert E. Litan and Yasuyuki Fuchita, eds.

The Future of State-Owned Financial Institutions

Policy and Practice

2005, Gerard Caprio, Jonathan Fiechter, Michael Pomerleano and Robert E. Litan, eds.

A Law That's Out of Date: Anti-Tying Restrictions On Banks

May 27, 2003, Robert E. Litan