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G8-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 Emerging Markets: Recent Trends and … Continue reading
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 Action Plans, Task delegated to various institutions and … Continue reading
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 key economies. The article can also be found in this PDF-Document. The … Continue reading
Global 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 an interesting claim: Economics normally provides rather dismal news, emphasizing tradeoffs among … Continue reading
Summary 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 Financial Institution. The report is named after Allan … Continue reading
Deutsche 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 International Settlements EBR – European Bank for Reconstruction and Development … Continue reading
Intergovernmentalism 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 financial markets in the last 30 years, there is no single World Financial Authority regulating … Continue reading
Project: 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 changes such as Basel II. How the global financial architecture evolved and … Continue reading
Global 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 “Alternatives to Neoliberalism” by the NGO-Coalition “New Rules for Global … Continue reading