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Book SynopsisThe Changing Landscape of Global Financial Governance and the Role of Soft Law provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the changing landscape of global financial governance by exploring the impact and role of soft law, directly or as a precursor of hard law, pertaining to financial governance. Since the shaping of financial governance impacts national, regional and global levels of regulation, different views and arguments contribute to the ongoing discussions about financial regulation. Against this background, this book brings together perspectives of economists and lawyers who have not rallied to one or the other popular call for more regulation as a panacea for the prevention of future global financial crises, calls which have all but drowned out more nuanced scientific debates. Instead, their analysis of aspects of remedial regulatory policy prescriptions already made or proposed demonstrates that carefully designed soft law can be deployed as a valuable method or tool of mediation between the unrestrained autonomy of dysfunctional markets and overzealously crafted hard law.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Foreword – Ewald Nowotny Introducing the book – Armin J. Kammel and Friedl Weiss Introductory Remarks – Chris Brummer Part I – Theoretical Reflections 1. Armin J. Kammel, “Government versus Markets – A Change in Financial Regulation” 2. Aristides N. Hatzis, “A Law & Economics Framework for Financial Regulation – Ten Questions and Answers” 3. Friedl Weiss, “The Institute of Soft Law – Some Theoretical Underpinnings” 4. Heidi M. Schooner, “The Dogma of Capital Requirements as a Clear Response to the Financial Crisis” Part II – Specific Legal and Policy Responses 5. Douglas W. Arner, “The Politics of International Financial Law in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008” 6. Alfred Schramm, “The Changing Landscape of European Financial Supervision from an Institutional Perspective” 7. Arthur E. Wilmarth, “The Dodd-Frank Act does not solve the Too-Big-to-Fail Problem” 8. Poonam Puri and Simon Kupi, "Say on Pay, Soft Law and the Regulatory Focus on Enforcement and Transparency” 9. Ruth Plato-Shinar and Rolf H. Weber, “Consumer Protection through Soft Law in an Era of Global Financial Crisis” 10. Christian A. Johnson, “Moving from Soft Law to Hard Law in the Derivatives Area – A Case Study”. Part III – Regional Aspects 11. Sandra Annette Booysen, “Financial Regulation and the Changing Relationship between Banks and Their Customers – A Singaporean Perspective” 12. Chao Xi, “From Rule-Taker to Rule-Maker: China’s Changing Roles in Global Banking Regulation” 13. Chayodom Sabhasri, “Regional Financial Integration in Asia and the Challenge of The Global Financial Crisis” 14. Jamshid Damooei, “Economics of the Debt Crisis and its Impact on the Developing World” 15. Stephany Griffith-Jones and Matthias Thiemann, “Limiting financial crises: Demands on the new financial architecture from the perspective of NGOs and Developing Countries”
