Discussion of 2008 FSF Report on Financial Stability
The FSF Report on Financial Stability (called “Enhancing Market and Institutional Resilience”) was yesterday approved by the G7. To assess the impact of the report on the global financial architecture...
View ArticleGlobal Economic Governance and IGOs – definitions by Jacobs
Didier Jacobs, special advisor to the president of Oxfam America, wrote an interesting paper called “Democraticing Global Economic Governance“. He presented this paper in May 2002 at a conference on...
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G7-April-2008-Meeting and Plaza-Accord
French Finance Minister Christine Lagard has compared the recent FSF-report released by the G7 Finance Ministers last week to the Plaza Accord (as quoted by Christopher Swann in an article at...
View ArticleBill Cara: Finance Ministers vs. Central Bank Governors
In commenting the G7/FSF-report, Bill Cara makes an exemplified critique in the tradition of the American Populist movement: The G-7 meetings are ‘potentially’ the most important in the world. This is...
View ArticleProject: Mapping the Financial Governance
When academics, analysts and scholars analyze the causes and remedies for the current credit crisis, most of them analyze macro-economic trends such as exchange rate movements, or micro-economic...
View ArticleIntergovernmentalism in Financial Regulation
Puzzling Complexity The global financial architecture is very complex. Despite increasing liberalization of financial markets, increased system risk and integration of the economies through the...
View ArticleSummary of the recommendations of the Meltzer-Report
To assess the evolution of the Financial Architecture after the Asian Crisis, the Meltzer Report provides a good gauge for the critique of the USA and other G7 countries towards the International...
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Membership of Key Economies in International Organisations
This article discusses the membership of 43 key economies in the major international financial institutions. The aim is to assess whether the global financial architecture adequately incorporates the...
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G8 Action Plan on Local Currency Bond Markets – Overview
The Document contains an overview of the G8 Action Plan on the developments of local currency bond markets and the implementation report. The overview-report looks at the problems identified by the G8...
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Slaughter – A New World Order
Anne Marie Slaughters Book on A New World Order deals with transgovernmental networks. She focuses on the classic governmental networks, but also on regulators, judges and parlamentarians establishing...
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