Studying sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) can tell us a lot about the financial services sector. Specifically, in this commentary I suggest that studying the reactions of financial service providers, such as asset managers but also the broader complex of professional services such as accounting and...

This paper argues that Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) has been largely shielded from the short-termism of the democratic debate. Besides the Fund's ethical guidelines, it seems that the second most central side effect of being embedded in the state apparatus, is that the Fund's development...

Nation states are increasingly sharing sovereignty, both with other states and with supranational and non-governmental institutions. In large part, this is the result of a long period of economic and financial globalization, which has undercut territorial notions of sovereignty and varieties of...

The glaring deficiencies of the US sub-prime market in 2007 evolved through 2008 and 2009 into a fully blown global financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. That in turn has spawned sovereign debt crises in a number of European countries in 2010, most dramatically in...