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Slaughter – A New World Order

Anne Marie Slaughters Book on A New World Order deals with transgovernmental networks. She focuses on the classic governmental networks, but also on regulators, judges and parlamentarians establishing their own network. The description of Regulatory networks are particular interesting. According … Continue reading

22. August 2008 by kasi
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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

25. June 2008 by kasi
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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

22. June 2008 by kasi
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Corporate Governance and International Standards – Paper by Kern Alexander and Rahul Dhumale

In 2001, Kern Alexander and Rahul Dhumale published a paper on the relevance of International Standards for the Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions. Both the BCBS and the OECD have released Corporate Governance Principles (the OEDC in 2004, the BCBS … Continue reading

21. April 2008 by kasi
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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

20. April 2008 by kasi
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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

14. April 2008 by kasi
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G33 – Group of Thirty-Three

Institution: Group of 33 Abbreviation: G33 Type: Public Founded: 1999-2000 Members Total: 33 Membership in: Membership of: BIS, IMF, OECD, World Bank, Chair of the Interim Committee Description: The Group of 33 superseded the Group of 22 in early 1999, … Continue reading

02. April 2008 by kasi
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G22 – Group of Twenty-Two

Institution: Group 22 Abbreviation: G22 Type: Public Founded: 1998-1999 Members Total: 22 Membership in: Membership of: BIS, IMF, OECD, World Bank, Chair of the Interim Committee Description: In response to the crisis in Asia, Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors … Continue reading

02. April 2008 by kasi
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G10 – Group of Ten

Institution: Group of 10 Abbreviation: G10 Type: Public Founded: 1964 Members Total: 11 Membership in: Membership of: BIS, OECD, European Commission, IMF Description: The Group of Ten is made up of eleven industrial countries (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, … Continue reading

02. April 2008 by kasi
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OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development

Institution: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Abbreviation: OECD Type: Public Founded: Members Total: Membership in: FSF Membership of: Description: Working Group: Outreach: Reporting to: Website:http://www.oecd.org/ Highest Organ: Chair: Seat: Function: Standards: Institution: Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs Abbreviation: … Continue reading

02. April 2008 by kasi
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