Financial services regulators are tasked with balancing the conflicting roles of empowering and policing their regulated communities. In order to be effective, agencies must be able to accomplish both tasks. This analysis examines several determinants of effectiveness among U.S. bank regulators. Using statistical and narrative analyses, it examines factors that have contributed to the regulatory effectiveness of the National Credit Union Administration, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Office of Thrift Supervision. The study focused on the relationships between regulatory ability to prevent failures and influences including agency longevity, ability to manage complexity, appointee and staff qualities, mission stability, regulatory style, and resources. Agency longevity and resources had the greatest impact on effectiveness among the cases that were examined. Additionally, this study proposes a typology that suggests that more effective regulators are able to balance information from their regulated communities with a public interest orientation. This allows them to have current information regarding emerging regulatory issues but also to avoid becoming too reliant on their supervised institutions for information. / Ph. D.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:30:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulo M Furlan de Melo.pdf: 839617 bytes, checksum: 6dd475c45a8e8bf275bd6ba4603e4d2a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-26 / There it is found that the object of law as a cultural product, is the human relationship - the complexity of the dynamics of relations corresponds to a wealth of legal rules regulating behavior of social, political and material nature. As regard to the scope of social relationships, levels of material satisfaction, income and political participation are conditioned by the positive legal system, by the recurrence of economic crises and changes in traditional family that culminated in the growth of social risk and the need for state intervention - the State will not only be incumbent upon the guarantee of individual freedoms, but also to the conformation of the social relations through law. The growth of complexity and functional differentiation of society is overlapped by a wealth of possibilities and alternatives that affect the regulatory capacity and that of provision from the State. Thus, the State action through public policies implies the need for continuous revision of positive law, subjecting it to constant evaluation of its effectiveness as a social requirement of self-preservation. Given the relevancy of the discussion, in this work, we are looking for elaborating a systematic analysis of social risks and Social Security, its legal arrangement, and interactions with the economic system and the challenges for regulatory effectiveness, considered under the constitutional principle of social justice / Há que se verificar que o objeto do direito, como produto cultural, é a relação humana - à complexidade da dinâmica das relações corresponde uma profusão de normas jurídicas reguladoras de comportamentos na ordem social, política e material. No âmbito das relações sociais, os níveis de satisfação material, de renda e de participação política são condicionados pelo sistema jurídico positivo, pela recorrência de crises econômicas e por alterações nos núcleos familiares tradicionais que culminaram no incremento do risco social e na necessidade de intervenção estatal ao Estado caberá, não apenas a garantia das liberdades individuais, mas também a conformação das relações de âmbito social, através do direito. Ao crescimento da complexidade e diferenciação funcional da sociedade se superpõe uma profusão de possibilidades e alternativas que condicionam a capacidade regulatória e de provimento do Estado. Assim, a atuação estatal através das políticas públicas implica a necessidade de revisão contínua do direito positivo, submetendo-o à constante avaliação de sua eficácia social como requisito de autopreservação. Diante da relevante discussão, buscou-se, no trabalho, a análise sistemática dos riscos sociais e da Seguridade Social, seu arranjo jurídico, suas interações com o sistema econômico e os desafios quanto à efetividade normativa, considerada sob o princípio constitucional da Justiça Social