by Anil Hira (Editor), Norbert Gaillard (Editor), Theodore H. Cohn (Editor)
About the Author
Anil Hira is Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Norbert Gaillard is Econo-mist and Independent Consultant to international organisations and financial firms.
Theodore Cohn is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
About this book
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.
Brief contents
1 Persistent Issues with Financial Regulation 1
2 Financial Regulation and Monetary Policy: The Spectre of Government Failure 37
3 The Effects of Regulatory Capture on Banking Regulations: A Level-of-Analysis Approach 71
4 How and Why Moral Hazard Has Distorted Financial Regulation 111
5 Remittances, Regulation, and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 153
6 Regulatory Mayhem in Offshore Finance: What the Panama Papers Reveal 191
7 Concluding Remarks 233
Index 247
Series: International Political Economy Series
Pages: 252 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (April 17, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3030056791
ISBN-13: 978-3030056797