On September 26, 2016, the Bipartisan Policy Center, a US-based non-profit organization, issued a paper entitled "Did Policymakers Get Post-Crisis Financial Regulation Right?" The paper analyzes the effects of financial regulation post-financial crisis and reported that, as a general matter, consumers are better protected than before the crisis but that there were increased barriers to affordable credit. In addition, the paper reported on unintended consequences of increased financial regulation, including the curtailment or shift of certain activities from banks to nonbank providers and a lack of coordination on rulemaking. Finally, the BPC recommended that the next president and Congress instruct regulators and appoint an independent commission to conduct a formal assessment of the post-crisis financial regulatory structure.
The BPC paper is available at: http://cdn.bipartisanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/BPC-FRRI-Post-Crisis-Financial-Regulation.pdf .
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