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• Masciandaro, Donato
• Quintyn, Marc

We propose a path-dependence approach to analyzing the evolution of the financial supervisory architecture, focusing on the institutional role of the central bank, and then apply our framework to describing the institutional settings in a selected sample of countries. the policymaker who decides to maintain or reform the supervisory architecture is influenced by the existing institutional setting in a systematic way: the more the central bank is actually involved in supervision, the less likely a more concentrated supervisory regime will emerge, and vice versa (path-dependence effect). We test the path-dependence effect describing and evaluating the evolution and the present state of the architecture of six national supervisory regimes in south Eastern Europe (see): Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia, and turkey. The study of the see countries confirms the postulated role of the central bank in the institutional setting. In five cases the high involvement of the central bank in supervision is correlated with a multi-authority regime, while in one case a high degree of financial supervision unification is related with low central bank involvement.

• Economics and Business
• Computer and information sciences

• Finance
• Statistics

financial supervision, central banks, path-dependence, political economy, South Eastern Europe

Περιέχει πίνακες, διαγράμματα και βιβλιογραφία, Special thanks also go to Rosaria Vega Pansini for extensive, skilful and patient research assistance while compiling the database and the country profiles., JEL Classification: G18, G28, E 58