From late 2008 onwards, in the space of six months, international financial regulatory
networks centred around the Swiss city of Basel presided over a startlingly rapid ideational …

This article reviews the crisis-induced reforms of financial market regulation in the European
Union (EU) from the perspective of the joint-decision trap and the orders of change …

EU capital markets have changed radically over the past 20 years. In the 1980s, countries
had their own financial industries and rules. Now there is one'Champions League'of banks …

This article focuses on the transformatory potential of macroprudential ideas following the
financial crash of 2008, examining how they are being mediated by existing institutional …

The virulent E uropean U nion hedge fund debate led many observers to suspect a
paradigmatic battle between liberal market economies and countries in favour of tighter …

Bank ring-fencing is an important post-crisis regulatory response to the moral hazard
dilemma surrounding too-big-to-fail banks. Since national governments bore the worst of the …

Before the crisis, the European Union (EU) had emerged as a major force in global financial
governance (GFG). The contributions to this collection examine the different dimensions of …

Institutional and ideational crises are characterised by fundamental uncertainty about the
world, and at the same time require swift action on part of decision makers. How do political …

Research on European governance is central to understanding both the process of
European integration and its external influence as a laboratory for multilateralism. This …

One of the most significant financial regulatory changes following the financial crash of 2008
was the apparent international embrace of ideas about macroprudential regulation by …