The New Political Economy of the Macroprudential Ideational Shift

New Political Economy

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 112-139

  Baker, Andrew ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bank of International Settlements; Basel Convention; constructivism; crisis; economic ideas; financial regulation; macroprudential; norm entrepreneurs; transformation

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL POLICY; PARADIGM SHIFT; POLITICAL ECONOMY; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK;

BASEL; BASEL-STADT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84865861933     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2012.662952     Document Type: Article

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