Introduction : financial regulators and international relations -- Capital regulation : a brief primer -- Theoretical framework : regulators, legislatures, and domestic balancing -- The road to the Basel Accord : international regulation in banking -- Financial instability and regulatory...

Regulating Capital -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Financial Regulators and International Relations -- 2. Capital Regulation: A Brief Primer -- 3. Regulators, Legislatures, and Domestic Balancing -- 4. Banking: The Road to the Basel Accord -- 5. Securities: Financial Instability and...

This scholarly and interdisciplinary volume sheds much needed light on the realtionship between national policies, regional integration patterns and the wider global setting. It covers regional patterns in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Individual chapters focus on topics ranging from industrial...