1st Edition

Transnational Financial Regulation after the Crisis

Edited By Tony Porter Copyright 2014
248 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The global financial crisis that began in 2007 was the most destructive since the 1930s. The rapid spread of the crisis across borders and the complexity of these cross-border linkages highlighted the importance for authorities of working together in responding to the crisis. This book examines the transnational response that relied heavily on a set of relatively informal transnational... Read more

Part I: Introduction and overview  1. Transnational regulatory reform after the crisis: Successful Experimentalism or Fragmented Failure? Tony Porter  Part II: Key areas of reform  2. The Managers of Information: International Organizations, Data, and Financial Stability Liam Clegg  3. New and alternative ways of regulating and shaping banks Eric Helleiner  4. Derivatives regulation Lena Rethel and Timothy J. Sinclair  5. The Politics of Constructing Macroprudential Regulatory Regimes Andrew Baker  Part III: Regional and multilevel variation  6. The US Dodd-Frank Act and international financial regulation Kathryn C. Lavelle  7. The European Union Heather McKeen-Edwards  8. The Law and Politics of the European Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies Christopher Brummer  9. Regulating the Securitization of Consumer Finance in the global South Susanne Soederberg  Part IV: Conclusion  10. Complexity and Change in Transnational Financial Regulation: Theoretical and Practical Lessons Tony Porter

Biography

Tony Porter is Professor of Political Science at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. His most recent book is Transnational Financial Associations and the Governance of Global Finance: Assembling Power and Wealth (Routledge, 2013), co-authored with Heather McKeen-Edwards. His research has focused on institutional changes in transnational governance, with particular emphasis on global finance, and on the role in transnational governance of private standards and technical systems.