Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: The 2010 Banking Law Symposium on Managing Systemic Risk / Charles Enoch -- Special Address: The Deposit Insurer's Role in Transitioning from a Government Deposit Guarantee / Jean Pierre Sabourin -- Preface: It Has Been 'A Hard Day's Night' / John Raymond LaBrosse, Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal and Dalvinder Singh -- Investor Behaviour in the Period Before the 2007-08 Financial Crisis / Richard J. Rosen -- The Nature of Systemic Risk / Jack Selody -- The Government as Guarantor of Last Resort: Benefits, Costs and the Case for Premium Charges / Sebastian Schich -- The Troubled Asset Relief Program: Has Forbearance as Far as the Eye Can See Saved the US Economy? / Gillian G.H. Garcia -- Why is the Canadian Banking System so Remarkably Stable? A Comparative Analysis with the US / Jean Roy, Rima Turk-Ariss and Yenni Redjah -- Systemic Contingent Claim Analysis--A Model Approach to Systemic Risk / Dale F. Gray and Andreas A. Jobst -- Tax and the City: The UK's Proposals for a Bank Levy / John Snape -- Iceland's Financial Disaster and its Fiscal Impact / Arnoŕ Sighvatsson and Gunnar Gunnarsson -- The Greek Tragedy: Is There a Deus ex Machina? / Ioannis Kokkoris, Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal and Kiriakos Papadakis -- Restructuring a Nation's Debt / Lee C. Buchheit and Mitu Gulati -- Firm Stability and System Stability: The Regulatory Delusion / Geoffrey Wood with Ali Kabiri -- 'Living Wills': Putting the Caboose Before the Engine and Designing a Better Engine / George G. Kaufman -- Finding a Solution to the 'Too-Big-To-Fail' Problem / Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr. -- 'Too-Big-To-Fail'--Can Alternative Resolution Regimes Really Remedy Systemic Risk in Large Financial Institutions' Insolvency? / Jens-Hinrich Binder -- To Divest or Not to Divest: That is the Question... / Ioannis Kokkoris -- Resolving Large Complex Financial Institutions Within and Across Jurisdictions / Robert R. Bliss and George G. Kaufman -- From Consolidated Supervision to Consolidated Resolution / Rosa M. Lastra and Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal -- Creating an EU-Level Supervisor for Cross-border Banking Groups: Issues Raised by the US Experience with Dual Banking / Larry D. Wall, Mariá J. Nieto and David G. Mayes -- Capital and Liquidity Reform--A New Global Agenda / George A. Walker -- Basel II to Basel III: A Great Leap Forward? / Imad Moosa -- The US Architecture of Bank Regulation and Supervision: Recent Reforms in their Historical Context / Dalvinder Singh -- An Evaluation of the Canadian Financial Safety Net During the Global Financial Crisis / John Raymond LaBrosse and James F. McCollum -- Financial Safety Net Reform in Nigeria / Ganiyu Ogunleye -- Islamic Deposit Insurance System: The Malaysian Model / Khairuddin Hj Arshad -- Managing Financial Risk: The Precautionary Principle and Protecting the Public Interest in the UK / John F. McEldowney