After the destructive impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, many believe that pre-crisis financial market regulation did not take the "big picture" of the system suffciently into account and, subsequently, financial supervision mainly "missed the forest for the trees". As a result, the...

Since the outbreak of the financial crisis, the macro-prudential policy paradigm has gained increasing prominence (Bank of England, 2009; Bernanke, 2011). The dynamics of this shift in the economic discourse, and the reasons this shift has not taken place prior to the crisis have not been addressed...

Redesigning financial regulation -- Taming the corporation : Sarbanes-Oxley and the politics of symbolism -- Enforcing power : the contested role of Eliot Spitzer -- The limitations of the criminal process -- Corporate governance and the institutionalisation of compliance -- The efficacy and...