Contents

1Institutional Change in the Regulation of Financial Markets: Questions and Answers
Renate Mayntz

2The Two-Tiered Politics of Financial Reform in the United States
John T. Woolley and J. Nicholas Ziegler

3Post-Crisis Financial Regulation in Britain
Sukhdev Johal, Michael Moran and Karel Williams

4International Radicalism, Domestic Conformism: France's Ambiguous Stance on Financial Reforms
Nicolas Jabko

5Institutional Change in German Financial Regulation
Stefan Handke and Hubert Zimmermann

6Increasing Vulnerability: Financial Market Regulation in Switzerland
Simon Steinlin and Christine Trampusch

7The Regulatory Response of the European Union to the Global Financial Crisis
Lucia Quaglia

8The Defense of Economic Interests in the European Union: The Case of Hedge Fund Regulation
Cornelia Woll

9What's the Problem? Competing Diagnoses and Shifting Coalitions in the Reform of International Accounting Standards
Paul Lagneau-Ymonet and Sigrid Quack 6

10 New Capital Rules? Reforming Basel Banking Standards after the Financial Crisis
Roman Goldbach and Dieter Kerwer

11 Institutional Change at the Top: From the Financial Stability Forum to the Financial Stability Board
Shawn Donnelly

12 The International Financial Architecture: Plus ça change ...?
Geoffrey R. D. Underhill and Jasper Blom

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