CSGR News and Events
Release of the Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform Report
Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform: In Praise of Unlevel Playing Fields
The current international financial crisis asks us to rethink our answer to an important question: what are our financial systems for? The Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform provides an answer by bringing together a range of world-class economists, political scientists, and lawyers to explore how we can best enhance international financial stability through regulation that is sensitive to variations in what countries want from their financial systems. The Commission has identified key reforms for a well-regulated financial system. Among these reforms is a stress on dealing with boom-bust cycles, introducing macro-prudential regulation, recognising the need for a better allocation of risks among financial institutions, dealing with issues of regulatory capture, and bolstering national rules with international coordination to promote international financial stability. The Commission's report is now available from this website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/research/warwickcommission/report
Disseminating the report of the ESRC Project on Geographical Indications and Localisation
PESON Workshop
The Political and Economic Sociology Network includes CSGR, PERC at the University of Sheffield, and CBP at the Copenhagen Business School. Coordinated by Paul Lewis (CSGR), Antje Vetterlein (CBP) and John Hobson (PERC), PESON will hold a workshop in Sheffield on November 19 and 20 200.
The objectives for the workshop are:
(i) To provide a shared understanding between participants of the research interests, methods and theoretical perspectives employed by early career researchers at the three member institutions.
(ii) To begin discussions of potential collaborative projects between researchers at the member institutions.
(iii) To begin to develop an overarching definition of how political and economic sociology is to be defined across member institutions in order to support further grant applications for the network.