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...
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 ArticleDeutsche Bank – Banking and Stock Glossary
Deutsche Bank has a glossary for market and stock terms. They list the following international financial institutions: AIBD – Association of International Bond Dealers, now ICMA. BIS – Bank for...
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...
View ArticleGlobal Financial Architecture – Article by Charles W. Calomiris
Charles Calomiris article on a New Global Financial Architecture from October 1998 is an interesting document, outlining the criticism of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs). He starts with...
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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...
View ArticleG8-Action Plan on Local Bond Markets – Missing Follow-Up Documents
The overview of G8 Action Plan on Local Bond Markets lists a couple of documents that were mentioned in the implementation report to be published soon, but have not been published since: IMF: “ABS in...
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