Archive for April 14th, 2008

Global Financial Governance - Definitions by Alexander, Eatwell and Dhumale

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Alexander, Eatwell and Dhumale make this causal explanation for the need of Global Financial Governance (p. 14): In the post-Bretton-Woods-Era, banks and financial instutions have adopted innovative financial instruments to diversify earnings and to hedge against credit and market risk. [Is this really the case? Wasn't it rather to hedge primarily ...

Financial stability - a public good?

Monday, April 14th, 2008

When defining Financial Stability, the authors of the book on "Global Financial Governance" stated that financial stability is a "public good [which] will never be provided adequately by the market without regulatory intervention" (p. 18). In the traditional meaning, a public good does not necessarily need public intervention or regulation, it ...

Global Economic Governance and IGOs - definitions by Jacobs

Monday, April 14th, 2008

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 "Alternatives to Neoliberalism" by the NGO-Coalition "New Rules for Global Finance". In the paper, he focuses mostly on the participation of ...

Alexander, Dhumale, Eatwell: “Global Governance of Financial Systems”

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Kern Alexander, Rahul Dhumale and John Eatwell published a book in 2004 called "