KLUWER LAW INTERNATIONAL International Financial System Policy and Regulation Ross P. Buckley Wolters KluWer Law & Business AUSTIN BOSTON CHICAGO NEW YORK • THE...

This article assesses the performance of the G20 since the Global Financial Crisis by analysing the regulatory measures it has called for and their current stage of implementation. It then proceeds to consider the changes in the global financial system in the past 40 years and seeks to assess...

In recent years much attention has been given to systemic risk and maintaining financial stability. Much of the focus, rightly, has been on market failures and the role of regulation in addressing them. This article looks at the role of domestic policies and government actions as sources of...

The post-crisis reforms to the global financial system may serve us well if the next crisis is 2008 revisited. But it will not be. So instead of preparing to fight the last war, this paper analyses the five major changes in the global financial system in the past 40 years, and explores potential...

This paper analyses the development of the secondary market in emerging markets debt from 1994 to 1999, and identifies the lessons to be learnt from that period. Particular attention is paid to the increasing integration of the secondary market with traditional financial markets, and to the...

This article explores who has most skilfully used the rules of the global economic regime — China, or the nations whose companies invest in her? We first analyse China's adoption and implementation of WTO commitments in the auto industry and the cultural goods sector. We then consider the...

Capital controls – measures taken to regulate the outflow or inflow of capital – are employed by governments to maintain financial stability and prevent or mitigate the effects of economic crises. For many decades capital controls were out of favour among economists and policymakers. Of...

A financial transactions tax is a tiny tax on wholesale capital market transactions. Civil society has long advocated for it on social justice grounds. This so-called Robin Hood Tax would take from the rich and give to the poor. Revenue estimates for a global FTT of 0.05% are in the order of US...