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Applying Smith's teachings to the modern world, then, is a much more complex and doubtful endeavor than it's usually made out to be. He certainly wouldn't have been opposed to every government intervention in the market. On financial reform, it's easy to imagine Smith supporting the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency and crackdowns on giant financial institutions. He might have also favored the just-passed health care reform bill, at least the part that requires states to set up exchanges to ensure retail competition for health insurance...
...Ph.D. student Alp Simsek, whom economics professor Jeremy C. Stein called “the most sought-after person on the economics job market this year,” will join the economics department as an assistant professor next fall...
Simsek’s job market paper—the paper he presented to potential employers—was inspired by the financial crisis and “identifies the economic environments that are more conducive to asset price bubbles financed by credit,” Simsek wrote in an e-mail...
Raising and strictly enforcing capital requirements is vital to creating a more stable financial system. During the financial crisis, plummeting assets and the consequential market panic caused almost every major bank to fear for its solvency. Had there been more stringent capital requirements, banks would not have been in such dire trouble. As Alan Greenspan notes in his recent paper on the crisis, while requirements should not be onerous, they should leave banks in a position to effectively manage during most crises. The current legislation in the Senate directs regulators to enforce higher capital requirements but without specific capital levels...
...addition, the dangerous market for derivatives, financial instruments that are used to hedge against changes in asset prices, must be strictly regulated. Complex derivatives were often traded without effective monitoring, allowing companies to quietly amass incredible risks on their balance sheets. The House bill proposes that derivatives be regulated through a clearinghouse, a useful suggestion that should be kept strong so that few, if any, derivatives escape the overview of a regulator...