1st Edition

Transatlantic Regulation

Edited By Susanne Lütz Copyright 2014
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

The European and American economies are closely interlinked as mutually important investment and trading partners. The growing intensity of economic interdependence has spurred the transatlantic coordination of rules and standards that can lead to the formation of non-tariff barriers to transatlantic commerce. But despite impressive government-to-government efforts to eliminate market barriers,... Read more

1. Regulators, firms and information: The domestic sources of convergence in transatlantic merger review  2. Private interests and the EU-US dispute on audit regulation: The role of the European accounting profession  3. Networks hanging loose: the domestic sources of US–EU patent disputes  4. Transatlantic flight fights: multi-level governance, actor entrepreneurship and international anti-terrorism cooperation  5. Of executive preferences and societal constraints: The domestic politics of the transatlantic GMO dispute

Biography

Susanne Lütz is Professor for International Political Economy at the Otto-Suhr Institut für Politikwissenschaft at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research has centered on comparative political economy with a focus on different fields of market regulation (corporate governance regulation, intellectual property rights) and particularly on the regulation of finance. She is currently studying the IMF-EU collaboration on credit lending in the wake of the current debt crisis.