This paper presents some thoughts on what we can learn from investigating European and East Asian monetary policies and monetary cooperation in historical comparative perspective. This fresh approach to the ongoing global and regional crises highlights the necessity to view problems of national...

In this paper, I put the ongoing G20 process of improving the regulation of international finance into a historically informed perspective. To understand the driving forces behind and obstacles to international cooperation in governing finance I combine concepts from international political...

This study investigates the implications of models of capitalism for the responsiveness of countries' fiscal policies during business cycles using new data for OECD countries and China. We expand the literature by adding the category of East Asian non-liberal capitalism to the established...