Overview
- Analyses the long-term roots of the 2008 financial crisis
- Explains the shortcomings of financial reforms carried out in the wake of the crisis
- Examines the challenges of innovation and globalisation to financial markets
- Focuses on emerging gaps in financial regulation
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Financial Regulation
- The 2008 Global Financial Crisis
- Fiscal Stimulus
- Systematic Risk
- Globalisation
- The Federal Reserve
- The Securities and Exchange Commission
- Debt
- Credit Rating Agencies
- The Panama Papers
- Tax Evasion
- Money Laundering
- Tax Havens
- Liberal Capitalism
- Shadow Banking
- The Glass–Steagall legislation
- Offshore Finance
- Transfer Pricing
- us politics
About this book
“This publication could not be more timely. Little more than a decade after the global financial crisis of 2008, governments are once again loosening the reins over financial markets. The authors of this volume explain why that is a mistake and could invite yet another major crisis.”
—Benjamin Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
“Leading political scientists from several generations here offer historical depth, as well as sensible suggestions about what reforms are needed now.”
—John Kirton, University of Toronto, Canada, and Co-founder of the G7 Research Group
“A valuable antidote to complacency for policy-makers, scholars and students.”
—Timothy J. Sinclair, University of Warwick, UK
This book examines the long-term, previously underappreciated breakdowns in financial regulation that fed into the 2008 global financial crash. While most related literature focuses on short-term factors such as the housing bubble, low interest rates, the breakdown of credit rating services and the emergence of new financial instruments, the authors of this volume contend that the larger trends in finance which continue today are most relevant to understanding the crash. Their analysis focuses on regulatory capture, moral hazard and the reflexive challenges of regulatory intervention in order to demonstrate that financial regulation suffers from long-standing, unaddressed and fundamental weaknesses.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anil Hira is Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Norbert Gaillard is Economist and Independent Consultant to international organisations and financial firms.
Theodore Cohn is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Failure of Financial Regulation
Book Subtitle: Why a Major Crisis Could Happen Again
Editors: Anil Hira, Norbert Gaillard, Theodore H. Cohn
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05680-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05679-7Published: 06 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05680-3Published: 16 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 252
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Political Economy, Public Policy, US Politics, International Finance, International Business