Coping with Financial Fragility and Systemic Risk

- Introduction

- Sources of financial fragility

- Financial factors in the economics of capitalism; H.P. Minsky

- Is the banking and payments system fragile? G.J. Benston, G.G. Kaufman

- Financial fragility: issues and policy implications; C.W. Calomiris

- Off-exchange derivatives markets and financial fragility; F.R. Edwards

- Comment; J.J. Sijben

- Comment; S.I. Greenbaum

- Private sector solutions

- Market discipline of banks' riskiness: a study of selected issues; F. Bruni, F. Paterno

- Private sector solutions to payments system fragility; R.A. Eisenbeis

- Derivatives and stock market volatility: is additional government regulation necessary? S.M. Tinic

- Global financial fragility and the private sector; C.R. Taylor

- Regulatory solutions

- Banking regulation as a solution to financial fragility; P.M. Horvitz

- Regulatory solutions to payment system risks: lessons from derivatives markets; D.L. Mengle

- International dimensions of the regulation of banking and the securities business: systemic stability and competitive neutrality issues; H.A. Benink, D.T. Llewellyn

- Private and regulatory solutions: discussion

- Banking; C. de Boissieu

- The payment and settlement systems; C.E.V. Borio

- International; C. Goodhart

- Summary of conference; R. Aliber

- Other papers

- Supervision of derivative instruments; J.L. Jordan

- Coping with financial fragility: a global perspective; A.J. Schwartz

- Summary of academic conference; B. Riley

- Financial fragility: Sources, prevention and treatment; A. Crockett

- Fragility in the banking world; H.O. Ruding

- Financial fragility and supervision: discussion; M. van Nieuwkerk

- Discussion; P. Rutteman.