{"id":13594,"date":"2016-11-15T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T21:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiplier-effect.org\/?p=13594"},"modified":"2016-11-15T16:59:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T21:59:31","slug":"can-financial-regulatory-changes-help-jumpstart-long-term-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/can-financial-regulatory-changes-help-jumpstart-long-term-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Financial Regulatory Changes Help Jumpstart Long-Term Investment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a presentation here at the Levy Institute, Emilios Avgouleas argued that financial regulatory changes since the crisis have become so complex they represent\u00a0a source of financial instability, and that new liquidity and capital requirements have contributed to the problem of &#8220;short-termism&#8221; in finance.<\/p>\n<p>Avgouleas proposed regulatory simplification and a reorientation that would create greater relative incentives for funding long-term investment projects (e.g., infrastructure), including a lower regulatory and tax burden on\u00a0long-term instruments. Empowering\u00a0issuers of long-term instruments like project bonds with intellectual property rights could, he suggested, help control the quality of these financial products by preventing &#8220;slicing and dicing&#8221; in derivatives markets, on pain of losing prescribed privileges.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the presentation below:\u00a0&#8220;The Financial Regulation Conundrum: Why We Should Discriminate in Favor of Long-Term Finance&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"427\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1jFUkSdp7J8\" frameborder=\"0\" 0=\"allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a presentation here at the Levy Institute, Emilios Avgouleas argued that financial regulatory changes since the crisis have become so complex they represent\u00a0a source of financial instability, and that new liquidity and capital requirements have contributed to the problem of &#8220;short-termism&#8221; in finance. Avgouleas proposed regulatory simplification and a reorientation that would create greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[1061,9,155,1118],"class_list":["post-13594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-reform","tag-emilios-avgouleas","tag-financial-regulation","tag-infrastructure","tag-long-term-investment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13594"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13605,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions\/13605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}