Governance, Regulation and Financial Market Instability: The Implications for Policy
Cambridge Centre for Business Research Working Paper No. 392
41 Pages Posted: 19 Sep 2011 Last revised: 20 Sep 2011
Date Written: December 1, 2009
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.
Keywords: corporate governance, regulation, financial market instability
JEL Classification: E32, E44, G38, N10, N20, P17
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