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

Eva Becker assesses the US financial crisis as a crisis of regulatorydata, information and knowledge. Based on the Financial Crisis InquiryCommission's interviews as well her own interviews, and drawing onCapture Theory and recent reformulations thereof, she develops"knowledge capture" as a theoretic framework to assess financialregulation under conditions of 21st century complexity.

List of 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.

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Becker
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783658136659
• ISBN: 978-3-658-13665-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 15 mm x 211 mm
• Weight: 406 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 296 p. 16 illus.
• Series: Springer VS
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Politics and business; Internationale Beziehungen, C, Economic Policy, Economics, International Relations, Economics and Finance, Political Economy, Management science, International Political Economy