Max Watson, a former Director of the Central Bank of Ireland and senior official of the International Monetary Fund, heads an expert panel to assess the fallout of the financial crisis and propose new regulatory approaches to tackle the underlying causes.
Yet with pressures almost everywhere on public expenditure, governments will have strong incentives to pursue public policy goals through regulatory channels rather than spending programmes. This panel discussion will discuss the common questions and challenges across industries, including an increasingly interactive context of regulation, new concerns about regulatory capture, and increased risks that policy-driven initiatives could give rise to contingent liabilities over time.
