On the World Bank blog 'All About Finance' you will find an interesting post and video by Professor Ross Levine. The post summarizes his presentation at the World Bank on April 28 entitled 'An Autopsy of the Financial System: Suicide, Accident, or Negligent Homicide?' The video of the event is available here.
Professor Ross Levine is the James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at Brown University. In this blog entry, he addresses three issues: (1) The causes of the cause of the financial crisis, (2) Core approaches to financial regulation, and (3) Systemic improvements. He also directs readers to longer treatments of each of these issues.
The All About Finance blog is run by a team under leadership of Asli Demirgüç-Kunt who is the Chief Economist of the Financial and Private Sector (FPD) Development Network and Senior Research Manager of Finance and Private Sector (DECFP) in the World Bank's Development Economics Research Group.