It has been said that the intellectual origins of the global financial crisis (GFC) can be traced back to “blind spots” in traditional financial theory, which obscured complexity and financial innovation in contemporary markets. There has been growing recognition that changes to the modern...

Some jurisdictions weathered the global financial crisis far better than others. Australia has attracted much attention in view of the fact that its economy performed particularly well during the crisis compared to the United Kingdom and the United States.The chapter explores why the Australia...

Executive pay has become a regulatory flashpoint of the global financial crisis. In contrast to the traditional non-interventionist approach to executive compensation, it has galvanized regulators around the world to search for effective responses to the perceived problem of executive pay. These...