The global financial crisis that started in 2007 sparked academic debate about the role that financial sector regulators played in the crisis and prompted policy reforms in the financial supervision architecture of several countries. This book focuses on the question of how accountability, independence, transparency, and, more generally, governance mechanisms applicable to financial regulators can better contribute to building responsive, responsible, and effective regulatory / supervisory frameworks that tackle the weaknesses of the pre-crisis regimes. The book re-visits the concepts of...