Friday, May 23, 2014

New Issue: Review of International Political Economy

The latest issue of the Review of International Political Economy (Vol. 21, no. 4, 2014) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Issue: Assets or Liabilities? Banks and the Politics of Foreign Ownership versus National Control
    • Rachel A. Epstein, Introduction: Assets or liabilities? The politics of bank ownership
    • Michel Goyer & Rocio Valdivielso del Real, Protection of domestic bank ownership in France and Germany: The functional equivalency of institutional diversity in takeovers
    • Huw Macartney, From Merlin to Oz: The strange case of failed lending targets in the UK
    • Rachel A. Epstein, When do foreign banks ‘cut and run’? Evidence from west European bailouts and east European markets
    • Jana Grittersová, Transfer of reputation: Multinational banks and perceived creditworthiness of transition countries
    • Dorothee Bohle, Post-socialist housing meets transnational finance: Foreign banks, mortgage lending, and the privatization of welfare in Hungary and Estonia
    • Aneta B. Spendzharova, Banking union under construction: The impact of foreign ownership and domestic bank internationalization on European Union member-states’ regulatory preferences in banking supervision
    • Shawn Donnelly, Power Politics and the Undersupply of Financial Stability in Europe