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University of Michigan Law School

2014

Administrative Law

2008 financial crisis

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Global Administrative Law And The Post-Crisis Financial Order, Michael S. Barr Jan 2014

Global Administrative Law And The Post-Crisis Financial Order, Michael S. Barr

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The global financial crisis caused widespread harm not just to the financial system, but also to millions of households and businesses, and to the global economy.1 The crisis revealed substantive, fundamental weaknesses in global financial regulation, and raised serious questions about whether national regulators and the international financial regulatory system could ever be up to the task of overseeing global finance. The Bretton Woods institutions (the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization) were never really equipped to deal with the growing complexity, breadth, and size of the global financial system, and instead left rulemaking and …