Finance: The Discreet Regulator : How Financial Activities Shape and Transform the World (Hardcover)

Foreword; M.Power Introduction: Finance: The Discreet Regulator; I.Huault , E.Lazega C.Richard PART I: POLYMORPHIC ACTORS AS NETWORKS OF INFLUENCE Financialization through Hybridisation: the Subtle Power of Financial Controlling; J.Morales A.Pezet How Big Four audit firms control standard setting in accounting and auditing; C.Ramirez Ambivalence and ambiguity: The interpretative role of compliance officers; M.Lenglet Maintaining the regulative order in the credit rating agency industry; B.Taupin PART II: MARKETS AND STATES: FORMS OF JOINT REGULATION Banks as Masters of Debt, Cost Calculators, and Risk-sharing Mediators: A Discreet Regulatory Role in the Case of French Public-Private Partnerships; E.Penalva-Icher , C.Richard , A.Jeny-Cazavan E.Lazega Market Information as a Public Good. The Political Economy of the Revision of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID); P.Lagneau-Ymonet A.Riva Finance in Public Service: Discreet Joint Regulation and Institutional Capture at the Commercial Court of Paris; E.Lazega L.Mounier PART III: THE PROCESS OF RULES' PRODUCTION How finance regulates trade union involvement in French SRI; E.Penalva-Icher Constructing the Market for Credit Derivatives. How Major Investment Banks Handle Ambiguities; I.Huault H.Rainelli-Weiss Legitimizing an Ambiguous Financial Innovation: the case of Exchange Traded Funds in France; L.Deville M.Oubenal