Research Handbook on International Financial Regulation

Kern Alexander, Rahul Dhumale

Edward Elgar, 2012 - Law - 458 pages

The globalisation of financial markets has attracted much academic and policymaking commentary in recent years, especially with the growing number of banking and financial crises and the current credit crisis that has threatened the stability of the global financial system. This major new Research Handbook sets out to address some of the fundamental issues in financial regulation from a comparative and international perspective and to identify some of the main research themes and approaches that combine economic, legal and institutional analysis of financial markets.

Specially commissioned contributions represent diverse viewpoints on the financial regulation debate and cover a number of new and controversial topics not yet adequately addressed in the literature. Specifically, these include; financial innovation - particularly in the context of the credit risk transfer market, securitisation and the systemic importance of the over-the-counter trading markets; the institutional structure of international financial regulation; and risk management and corporate governance of financial institutions.

This Handbook will provide a unique and comprehensive resource for all those with an interest in this critical issue - including academic researchers in finance and regulation, practitioners working in the industry and those involved with regulation and policy.

About the author

Kern Alexander holds the Professorial Chair in Law and Finance at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and is Senior Research Fellow in Financial Regulation at the Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy, University of Cambridge, UK. He is a member of the European Parliament's Expert Panel on Financial Services and was Specialist Adviser to the British Parliament's Select Committee on the Financial Services Bill 2012. He is a graduate of Cornell, Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
Rahul Dhumale is Managing Director, Risk Control at UBS, London, UK. He previously worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Monetary Fund and Cambridge University, where he taught financial regulation and corporate finance. He is a graduate of Duke, Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Research Handbook on International Financial Regulation; Elgar Original Reference Series
• Editors: Kern Alexander, Rahul Dhumale
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Edward Elgar, 2012
• ISBN: 1845422708, 9781845422707
• Length: 458 pages
• Subjects: Law / Banking; Law / Business & Financial