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Save to My PortfolioFixing the Financial Sector in the Wake of the Economic Crisis

Douglas J. Elliott, November 12, 2009

Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn) has introduced legislation to reform the financial sector in the wake of the recent economic crisis. Senator Dodd’s proposal calls for consolidating the four federal financial regulatory agencies into a single regulator. Fellow Douglas Elliott says regulation consolidation is definitely in order.

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioExpanding the Financial Services Frontier: Lessons From Mobile Phone Banking in Kenya

Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Njuguna S. Ndung'u, October 16, 2009, The Brookings Institution

Expanding the Financial Services Frontier: Lessons From Mobile Phone Banking in KenyaAccess to financial services is crucial to economic growth and poverty reduction, yet a large proportion of households in developing countries lack access to financial services. Brookings expert Mwangi Kimenyi and Njuguna S. Ndung’u, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, discuss the Kenyan experience with mobile phone banking and how this technology can expand the financial services frontier. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioHow Will the Regulatory Reforms Affect Consumers?

Douglas J. Elliott, June 18, 2009, PBS NewsHour

Dougals Elliott and others weigh in on the Obama administration's new consumer protection proposal on PBS's The Business Desk with Paul Soloman.
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Save to My PortfolioInsufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit and Banking Among Low-Income Households

Monday, May 04, 2009
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC

More low-income families now need assistance on how to find financial vehicles that will allow them to more effectively manage debt, savings and their financial lives. Brookings hosted a discussion on how recommendations from Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit, and Banking among Low-Income Households—a new book edited by Rebecca M. Blank and Michael S. Barr—might be realized in this current economic environment. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioForeclosures and Stimulus: What’s At Stake for America’s Neighborhoods

Alan Berube and Alan Mallach, February 09, 2009, The Brookings Institution

The final House-Senate compromise on the economic recovery package offers no boost for HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program, established last year to help state and local governments mitigate the impact of foreclosures. Alan Berube and Alan Mallach argue that additional funds for the program (part of the House proposal omitted in the final bill) would provide much-needed assistance to local communities. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioStabilizing Communities: A Federal Response to the Secondary Impacts of the Foreclosure Crisis

Alan Mallach, February 03, 2009, The Brookings Institution

The wave of home mortgage foreclosures that began in 2006 continues to surge, greatly destabilizing neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the United States. However, the federal government has played a limited role to date in blunting its effects. This Blueprint policy brief argues for carefully-targeted federal policies to assist states and localities in mitigating the community-level impacts of foreclosure, and creating the conditions for ultimate housing market recovery. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioThe Not-So-Real-McCoy: Fake Alpha and the Need for Hedge Fund Transparency

H. Peyton Young and Dean P. Foster , December 17, 2008, Institutional Investor

The Not-So-Real-McCoy: Fake Alpha and the Need for Hedge Fund TransparencyBased on the 2008 working paper, "The Hedge Fund Game," Peyton Young and co-author Dean P. Foster show how surprisingly easy it is for unskilled managers to create “fake” alpha, mimicking the returns of their more skilled and scrupulous peers. The only way to protect the industry, the authors argue, is through greater transparency. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioSanctioning Iran: Current Impact, Future Prospects

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Washington, DC

The sixth session of the Iran Working Group was held on December 16, 2008, at Brookings. Several analysts shared their expertise on the current state of sanctions against Iran – in particular, on the current measures targeting certain Iranian banks – and on the prospects for the incoming U.S. administration to achieve multilateral consensus on a diplomatic strategy toward Tehran, particularly from key actors such as Russia and China. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioFraming, Reference Points, and Preferences for Life Annuities

Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey R. Brown, Sendhil Mullainathan, Garth R. Wiens and Marian V. Wrobel, October 31, 2008, The Brookings Institution

In this paper, Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, Garth R. Wiens and Marian V. Wrobel test the relative effectiveness of their two framing contexts for life annuities when different reference points are introduced, testing for loss aversion in both investment and consumption frames. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioMissing Markets: Fostering Market Based Solutions to Major Risks

Thursday, June 05, 2008
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Andy KingHurricanes, retirement, home-buying and tax-base erosion all pose financial risks. Yet markets to reduce these risks are elusive. The Hamilton Project at Brookings released papers at a discussion on how sound public policy can play a critical role in helping to foster new markets or expand existing markets in ways that could provide widely shared benefits. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioTackling the Mortgage Crisis: 10 Action Steps for State Government

Alan Mallach, May 29, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Tackling the Mortgage Crisis: 10 Action Steps for State GovernmentThe mortgage foreclosure crisis has become an issue of growing concern over the past two years, particularly in many older industrial communities. Alan Mallack proposes a set of 10 action steps that state leaders can take to help mitigate its impact on families and neighborhoods—and prevent a similar situation from occurring in the future. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioHow the Great Credit Squeeze Happened and How to Prevent Another

Friday, May 16, 2008
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Rebecca CookHow could America's sophisticated financial system go so wrong and cause so much damage? Martin Baily, Douglas Elmendorf and Robert Litan answered that question in a new paper released at this public forum. The authors, following opening remarks by FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, put forward a specific agenda of policy actions to reduce the chance that history repeats itself. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioThe Spring Meetings and the Global Economy

Colin I. Bradford, May 02, 2008, Guardian Unlimited

The Spring Meetings and the Global EconomyMissing from the recent IMF-World Bank ministerial meetings was an understanding that policy development needs to be an interactive process, one that includes financial officials and law makers. Colin Bradford advises the world's legislators must be brought into the conversation about global development in order for these discussions to evolve into successful action. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioPay-Day Lenders, Check Cashing Outlets and Other Alternative Financial Services

Rebecca M. Blank, April 16, 2008, The Brookings Institution

A substantial number of low-income individuals make use of services within the alternative financial sector, particularly pay-day lenders and check cashing outlets. The high cost of these services has led many observers to seek policies that would reduce the use of informal financial services among lower income households. In this paper, Rebecca Blank reviews the reasons why individuals utilize AFS outlets and discusses the policy options that could affect these decisions. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioWhy Don't People Choose Annuities? A Framing Explanation

Jeffrey R. Kling, Jeffrey R. Brown, Sendhil Mullainathan and Marian V. Wrobel, March 31, 2008, The Retirement Security Project

Why Don't People Choose Annuities? A Framing ExplanationJeffrey Kling, Jeffrey Brown, Sendhil Mullainathan and Marian Wrobel explore the idea that people's aversion to annuities is not a fully rational phenomenon. They suggest that a psychologically richer model of consumer behavior can explain under-annuitization. Read More

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Policy CenterCenter on Children and Families

The Center on Children and Families studies policies on the well-being of America's children and their parents and seeks a more effective means of addressing poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity in the United States.

TopicHealth Care

Brookings is committed to producing innovative policy solutions to our nation’s most difficult challenges. The country may face no more important domestic policy challenge than the much-needed reform of our health care system. Through an institution-wide effort, Brookings delivers new ideas and offers policy solutions to improve health care both at home and globally.

ExpertVanda Felbab-Brown

Vanda Felbab-Brown focuses on the national security implications of illicit economies and strategies for managing them. She is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

ExpertSuzanne Maloney

Suzanne Maloney studies Iran, the political economy of the Persian Gulf and Middle East energy policy. A former U.S. State Department policy advisor, she has also counseled private companies on Middle East issues.

ProgramGovernance Studies

Governance Studies explores political institutions of the United States and other democracies to assess how they govern, how their practices compare and how citizens and public servants can advance sound governance.

Research ProjectLatin America Initiative

The Latin America Initiative provides high-quality, in-depth, and independent research across a range of economic and political issues, and offers policy recommendations aimed at U.S. and Latin American policymakers.

ExpertIsabel V. Sawhill

A nationally known budget expert, Isabel Sawhill focuses on domestic poverty and federal fiscal policy. She is also co-director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings.

ExpertAmy Liu

Amy Liu is deputy director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Her policy studies include economic competitiveness, metropolitan growth and development, governance reforms, urban reinvestment, and social equity.

Policy CenterEngelberg Center for Health Care Reform

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state and local levels.

ExpertDomenico Lombardi

As president of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, Domenico Lombardi’s work at Brookings focuses on the international financial crisis and the reform of the IMF and the World Bank. He is an expert on G-20 and G8 Summits.

ExpertFederiga Bindi

Federiga Bindi is a leading expert on European political integration. She has a broad experience in government and held a number of posts in international organizations. Bindi currently serves as an advisor to the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Her research focuses on the EU, transatlantic relations; EU states foreign policies, global governance issues.

ExpertMark McClellan

Mark McClellan works on promoting high-quality, innovative and affordable health care. Once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. McClellan now directs the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform.

ExpertMwangi S. Kimenyi

Mwangi S. Kimenyi is a senior fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative. He focuses on Africa's development, including institutions for economic growth, the political economy, and private sector development.

Research ProjectBrookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement

The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement monitors displacement problems worldwide, works with governments, regional bodies, international organizations and civil society to create more effective policies and institutional arrangements for Internally Displaed Persons.

ExpertTed Gayer

Ted Gayer is the co-director of the Economic Studies program and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He conducts research on a variety of economic issues, focusing particularly on public finance, environmental and energy economics, housing, and regulatory policy.

TopicEducation

The economic and political well-being of any society requires a well-educated citizenry. Brookings’s work extends beyond the K-12 bookends to include pre-school interventions, higher education and the challenges of education in developing countries.