This chapter endeavors to explain rising inequality in Singapore and Switzerland from a power-resource theory perspective which will be accompanied with the idea of trilemma between earnings equality, full employment, and budgetary restraint. Recent decade has observed rising inequality in two...

Financial stability is a public good. Banking regulation has a vital role to play in the provision and maintenance of financial stability. This article introduces a multiple identity approach to the regulation of the banking sector. It conceptualizes bankers and regulators sharing a common...

This article contributes to our understanding of how and why developing countries would comply with international banking regulatory standards, Basel standards. The article demonstrates the interplay between opportunity structures constituted by transnationalization of public policymaking and...

The global financial crisis shook the world in 2007-08, however its effects can still be seen and full recovery has yet to be achieved. News headlines are still full of stories of a weak recovery, and its implications on employment, interest rates, capital flows, and in the overall economic...