From failure to failure: The politics of international banking regulation

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 609-638

  Lall, Ranjit ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basel III; Financial regulation; historical institutionalism; institutional theory; international political economy; regulatory capture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867599433     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2011.603669     Document Type: Article

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