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Despite efforts to eliminate market barriers, the EU and the US have frequently clashed over each other's regulatory policies. The aim of this book is to explore the domestic sources of cooperation or conflict in transatlantic regulation.
List of contents
1. Regulators, firms and information: The domestic sources of convergence in transatlantic merger review 2. Private interests and the EU-US dispute on audit regulation: The role of the European accounting profession 3. Networks hanging loose: the domestic sources of US–EU patent disputes 4. Transatlantic flight fights: multi-level governance, actor entrepreneurship and international anti-terrorism cooperation 5. Of executive preferences and societal constraints: The domestic politics of the transatlantic GMO dispute
About the author
Susanne Lütz is Professor for International Political Economy at the Otto-Suhr Institut für Politikwissenschaft at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research has centered on comparative political economy with a focus on different fields of market regulation (corporate governance regulation, intellectual property rights) and particularly on the regulation of finance. She is currently studying the IMF-EU collaboration on credit lending in the wake of the current debt crisis.
Summary
The book explores the domestic sources of conflict or cooperation in transatlantic regulation and covers regulatory fields such as merger review and competition policy, auditor oversight, software patent regulation, anti-terrorism cooperation and GMO regulation. This book was published as a special issue of the Review of International Political Economy.
