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    Governance, regulation and financial market instability: the implications for policy

    Konzelmann, Suzanne J. and Wilkinson, F. and Fovargue-Davies, M. and Sankey, D. (2009) Governance, regulation and financial market instability: the implications for policy. Working Paper. Centre for Business Research, Cambridge, UK.

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    Abstract

    Just as the 1929 Stock Market Crash discredited Classical economic theory and policy and opened the way for Keynesianism, a consequence of the collapse of confidence in financial markets and the banking system – and the effect that this has had on the global macro economy – is currently discrediting the ‘conventional wisdom’ of neo-liberalism. This paper argues that at the heart of the crisis is a breakdown in governance that has its roots in the co-evolution of political and economic developments and of economic theory and policy since the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression that followed. However, while many are looking back to the Great Depression and to the theories and policies that seemed to contribute to recovery during the first part of the twentieth century, we argue that the current context is different from the earlier one; and there are more recent events that may provide better insight into the causes and contributing factors giving rise to the present crisis and to the implications for theory and policy that follow.

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    Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): corporate governance; regulation; financial market instability
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Responsible Business Centre
    Depositing User: Sue Konzelmann
    Date Deposited: 18 Jan 2013 14:52
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:01
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5864

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