The future of financial regulation
By: edited by Iain G. MacNeil and Justin O'Brien
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781841139104
Description: The Future of Financial Regulation is an edited collection of papers presented at a major conference at the University of Glasgow in spring 2009, co-sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council World Economy and Finance Programme and the the Australian Research Council Governance Research Network. It draws together a variety of different perspectives on the international financial crisis which began in August 2007 and later turned into a more widespread economic crisis following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the autumn of 2008. Spring 2009 was in many respects the nadir since valuations in financial markets had reached their low point and crisis management rather than regulatory reform was the main focus of attention. The conference and book were deliberately framed as an attempt to re-focus attention from the former to the latter. The first part of the book focuses on the context of the crisis, discussing the general characteristics of financial crises and the specific influences that were at work this time round. The second part focuses more specifically on regulatory techniques and practices implicated in the crisis, noting in particular an over-reliance on the capacity of regulators and financial institutions to manage risk and on the capacity of markets to self-correct. The third part focuses on the role of governance and ethics in the crisis and in particular the need for a common ethical framework to underpin governance practices and to provide greater clarity in the design of accountability mechanisms. The final part focuses on the trajectory of regulatory reform, noting the considerable potential for change as a result of the role of the state in the rescue and recuperation of the financial system and stressing the need for fundamental re-appraisal of business and regulatory models
Notes: Papers presented at a major conference at the University of Glasgow in spring 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Adam Smith's dinner / Charles Sampford; title: US mortgage markets : a tale of self-correcting markets, parallel lives and other people's money / Robin Paul Malloy; title: The current financial crisis and the economic impact of future regulatory reform / Ray Barrell, Ian Hurst and Simon Kirby; title: Financial engineering of legal engineering? Legal work, legal integrity and the banking crisis / Doreen McBarnet; title: The future of financial regulation : the role of the courts / Jeffrey B. Golden; title: The financial crisis : regulatory failure or systems failure? / Paddy Ireland; title: Beyond 'Light Touch' regulation of british banks after the financial crisis / Roman Tomasic; title: What next for risk-based financial regulation? / Joanna Gray; title: Risk control strategies : an assessment in the context of the credit crisis / Iain MacNeil; title: Revisiting the lender of last resort : the role of the bank of England / Andrew Campbell and Rosa Lastra; title: The global credit crisis and regulatory reform / George A Walker; title: What future for disclosure as a regulatory technique? Lessons from behavioural decision theory and the global financial crisis / Emilios Avgouleas; title: Credit crisis solutions : risk symmetric criteria for the reconstruction of socially fair asset-backed securities / Joseph Tanega; title: 'Corporate governance' and oxymoron? The role of corporate governance in the current banking crisis / Blanaid Clarke.; title: Board composition and female non-executive directors / Sally Wheeler; title: Has the financial crisis revealed the concept of the 'Responsible Ownership' / Frank Curtiss, Ida Levine and James Browning; title: Trust and transparency : the need for early warning / Howard Adelman; title: Regulation, ethics and collective investments / Pamela F. Hanrahan; title: Financial crisis and economist pretensions : a critical theological approach / Werner G. Jeanrond; title: Dealing fairly with the costs to the poor of the global financial crisis / Christian Barry and Matt Peterson; title: Professions, integrity and the regulatory relationship : defending and reconceptualising principles-based regulation and associational democracy / Ken McPhail; title: Financial services providers, reputation and the virtuous triangle / Seumas Miller; title: Toward a 'responsible' future : reframing and reforming the goverance of financial markets / Melvin J Dubnick; title: Re-regulating Wall Street : substantive change or the politics of symbolism revisited? / Justin O'Brien; title: The banking crisis : regulation and supervision / Kern Alexander; title: Macro-prudential regulation / Avinash Persaud; title: The regulatory cycle : from boom to bust / Jeremy Cooper.