Research handbook on international financial regulation The globalisation of financial markets has attracted much academic and policymaking commentary in recent years especially with the growing number of banking and financial crises and the current credit crisis that has threatened the stability of the global financial system. This major new Research Handbook sets out to address some of the fundamental issues in financial regulation from a comparative and international perspective and to identify some of the main research themes and approaches that combine economic legal and institutional analysis of financial markets pt. 1. The structure of financial markets and the role of regulation pt. 2. Bank capital adequacy regulation and its effect on bank behaviour pt. 3. European financial regulation and crisis management pt. 4. Central clearing of derivatives pt. 5. Institutions markets and crisis management