Introduction Emilios Avgouleas and David Donald; Part I. The Environmental Determinants and Real Impact of Financial Regulation: 1. Regulating finance ¿ a legal theory of finance perspective Katharina Pistor; 2. Information, and the regulation of inefficient markets David C. Donald; 3. The information gap between institutional and retail investors during the IPO process Shuonan Chen; 4. Finance, intangibles and the privatization of knowledge Ugo Pagano; Part II. The Political Economic Analysis of Regulatory Choices: 5. Bank lobbying: regulatory capture and beyond Thomas Lambert and Deniz Igan; 6. Sociological and psychological perspectives on financial regulators Giuliano G. Castellano and Geneviève Helleringer; 7. The bank fees regime in Israel ¿ a political economy perspective Ruth Plato-Shinar; 8. Choosing among authorities for consumer financial protection in Taiwan: a legal theory of finance perspective Chang-hsien Tsai; 9. Regulation and incentives in Indian microfinance Nikhilesh Sinha; Part III. The Political Economy of Global Financial Regulation: Cooperation, Discord and Conflict: 10. The incomplete global financial order and the spillovers from currency market instability Emilios Avgouleas; 11. Coordination failures between the EU and US in commodities derivatives regulation Jakob Engel; 12. The political economy of cross-border banking regulation in emerging Europe Ivaylo Iaydjiev; 13. Preferential treatment of government debt in European financial law Ad van Riet; Part IV. Financial Regulation and State Capitalism: a Political Economic Perspective: 14. Rethinking state control over the PRC financial system: the black box of proactive intervention Li Guo and Daile Xia; 15. The political economy of China's shadow banking Shen Wei; 16. The A-share bailout and the role of China's securities watchdog in regulating a policy-driven market Sheng Jin.