The Chinese University of Hong Kong hosts The Political Economy of Financial Regulation on June 2-4, 2016.
The conference will seek to explore the following topics:
- Asian financial development and the ‘Washington Consensus’
- Bailouts, rescues, bail-ins and living wills in the financial industry
- Lobby power over making laws, rules and market structure (who controls shaping the rules?)
- The law and politics of monetary policy in a global financial system
- Industry capture of financial regulators
- Role of law in constituting the financial industry
- Beyond self-regulation in standard setting (LIBOR and FX fixes)
- Sociology of financial markets
- State owned enterprises in and connected with the financial system
- How and by whom benchmarks for regulatory quality are set in banking and finance
