Finance: The Discreet Regulator [electronic resource] : How Financial Activities Shape and Transform the World /
Huault, I.editor.
Richard, C.editor.
The financial sector is the talk of the global village. This book highlights that, before asserting that the institutions of the financial sector deserve to be regulated, one should consider that these very institutions are themselves the discreet regulators of the markets where their activity takes place.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Discreet Regulator; Part I: Polymorphic Actors as Networks of Influence; 1 Financialization through Hybridization: The Subtle Power of Financial Controlling; 2 How Big Four Audit Firms Control Standard-Setting in Accounting and Auditing; 3 Ambivalence and Ambiguity: The Interpretive Role of Compliance Officers; 4 Perpetuating the Regulatory Order in the Credit Rating Industry; Part II: Markets and States: Forms of Joint Regulation
5 Banks as Masters of Debt, Cost Calculators and Risk-Sharing Mediators: A Discreet Regulatory Role Observed in French Public-Private Partnerships6 Market Information as a Public Good: The Political Economy of the Revision of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID); 7 Finance in Public Service: Discreet Joint Regulation as Institutional Capture at the Paris Commercial Court; Part III: The Process of Rule Production; 8 How Finance Regulates Trade Union Involvement in French SRI; 9 Legitimizing an Ambiguous Financial Innovation: The Case of Exchange-Traded Funds in France
10 Constructing the Market for Credit Derivatives: How Major Investment Banks Handle AmbiguitiesIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The financial sector is the talk of the global village. This book highlights that, before asserting that the institutions of the financial sector deserve to be regulated, one should consider that these very institutions are themselves the discreet regulators of the markets where their activity takes place.
Business enterprises—Finance.
Finance.
Capital market.
Risk management.
Accounting.
Bookkeeping .
Investment banking.
Securities.
Business Finance.
Finance, general.
Capital Markets.
Risk Management.
Accounting/Auditing.
Investments and Securities.