Knowledge Capture in Financial Regulation: Data-, Information- and Knowledge-Asymmetries in the US Financial Crisis - Softcover

Becker, Eva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3658136650 ISBN 13: 9783658136659

Publisher: Springer VS, 2016

Synopsis

Eva Becker assesses the US financial crisis as a crisis of regulatory data, information and knowledge. Based on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s interviews as well her own interviews, and drawing on Capture Theory and recent reformulations thereof, she develops “knowledge capture” as a theoretic framework to assess financial regulation under conditions of 21st century complexity.

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About the Author

Eva Becker holds a degree in communication management, philosophy and comparative literature (BA at University of Leipzig, Germany) and public management and governance (MA at Zeppelin University, Germany). From 2012 to 2014, she worked as a research associate on Helmut Willke’s research project “policy responses to systemic risk”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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Eva Becker assesses the US financial crisis as a crisis of regulatory data, information and knowledge. Based on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s interviews as well her own interviews, and drawing on Capture Theory and recent reformulations thereof, she develops “knowledge capture” as a theoretic framework to assess financial regulation under conditions of 21st century complexity.

Contents

• Narratives of the Global Financial Crisis
• Multi-Level Complexity: The 21st Century Financial System
• US Policy Responses to the Crisis
• Knowledge Asymmetries and the Idea of Knowledge-Based Regulation
• Knowledge Capture in Financial Regulation: A Theoretic Framework
  

Target Groups

• Lecturers and students of Political Science, Sociology and Economics
• Experts for Financial Market Regulation
  

The Author
Eva Becker holds a degree in communication management, philosophy and comparativeliterature (BA at University of Leipzig, Germany) and public management and governance (MA at Zeppelin University, Germany). From 2012 to 2014, she worked as a research associate on Helmut Willke’s research project “policy responses to systemic risk”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer VS
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3658136650
• ISBN 13: 9783658136659
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 309