Drawing broadly on the literature on the political economy of the financial crisis, the paper looks at deregulation as a market driven process that culminated in a collective action failure. In the run up to the 2008 Financial Crisis strong competition and moral hazard went hand in hand and that...

We provide an estimate of the size of the shadow banking sector in Europe. We compare it to the shadow banking sector in the U.S. and discuss potential extensions and open issues related to data availability as well as the inclusion of aspects of hedge funds activities and exchange-traded funds....

This article examines the spread of financialization in Germany before the financial crisis. It provides an up-to date overview on the literature on financialization and reviews which of the phenomena typically associated with financialization have emerged in Germany. In particular, the article...