Regulation has a vital role in any financial system—and changes to U.S. financial regulation were clearly needed in the wake of the financial crisis. However, in a constantly evolving economy, discussion over the proper calibration of...

For centuries migrant workers who send money home to their families have been a major source of inflows for developing countries. However, it is only in the past few decades that we have been able to put a number to these remittances. In...

Submitted electronically Thomas J. Curry Comptroller of the Currency Office of the Comptroller of the Currency 400 7th Street, SW Washington, D.C. 20219 Dear Comptroller Curry, The Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets would like to...

International capital flows and cross-border investment and financial integration remain omnipresent in the European political debate as countries struggle with low and divergent GDP growth, new European financial regulation and the...

A few months ago, we produced a timetable for the implementation of U.S. financial reform under the Dodd-Frank Act. One of the main observations was that the legislation did little to consolidate regulation outside of banking. In contrast...

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There is a simple and sensible way to finally achieve comprehensive housing finance reform in the U.S.. The approach proposed in this paper is to amend the charters of Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Finance...

Based on the 2016 edition of the Milken Institute Global Opportunity Index, the report assesses the attractiveness of Asian countries to foreign investors and provides a closer look at the composition of Asia’s capital inflows. The region...

The Dodd-Frank Act is the most far-reaching financial regulatory reform in the U.S. since the nation emerged from the Great Depression in the 1930s. The act aims to limit systemic risk, allow for the safe resolution of the largest...

Eight years after the mortgage meltdown, America’s housing system remains broken, serving neither taxpayers nor homeowners properly. Ed DeMarco and Michael Bright have released the first in a four-part series of papers designed to help...