In the age of globalization, many economic sectors are addressed not only by the policies of national, but also of international institutions. Using three cases of highly internationalized sectors of the German economy - international tourism, telecommunications, and the pharmaceutical industry...

The financial market crisis of 2008/2009 triggered efforts at re-regulation at all political levels, national, European, and international. Reform demands had been radical and comprehensive but effective regulatory change was halting, and then in summer 2011 the related connected sovereign debt...

In diesem Papier geht es nicht um die voraussichtliche künftige Ordnung der globalen Finanzmärkte nach der Krise, sondern um die Frage, warum der Reformprozess zeitlich, sachlich und sozial hinter dem zurückbleibt, was 2009 von Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit einhellig für...

In reaction to the international financial crisis of 2007, a network of social scientists from seven countries analyzed the various changes in the regulation of financial markets, and this book presents their results. The articles published herein show patterns of institutional change that were...