John Hynes Farrar

Regulatory Failure and the Global Financial Crisis

This fascinating book presents a lively discussion of key issues resulting from the recent financial crisis. The expert contributors explore why the global financial crisis occurred, how it destroyed wealth, triggered mass unemployment and created an unprecedented loss of control on employment, monetary policy and government budgets.

Sovereign wealth funds and foreign exchange reserves as state wealth: Theory and Practice

Wealth of people is now also found collected at the government level as SWF and Reserves. Truly these are wealth belonging to the peoples of the countries which have set up sovereign funds to manage the people’s wealth at the state level. Some 44 countries have a total of some US

The governance and regulation of sovereign wealth funds and foreign exchange reserves in a post-GFC world

5 trillion while the people’s foreign reserves managed by governments amount to some US

Timeline of crisis and introduction

12 trillion. We note that these funds often give the countries some leverage in accessing investments in third countries disproportionate to the size of the countries having this SWF. The regulatory and management challenges of these funds are explored in this chapter.

INQUORATE BOARDS, ORGANS AND SECTION 35A OF THE COMPANIES ACT 1985

The recent global financial crisis has challenged conventional wisdom, and our conception of globalisation has been called into question. This challenging and timely book revisits the relationship between globalisation, the crisis and the state from an interdisciplinary perspective, with law, economics and political science underpinning the analysis.

Corporate Governance: Theories, Principles and Practice

This fascinating book presents a lively discussion of key issues resulting from the recent financial crisis. The expert contributors explore why the global financial crisis occurred, how it destroyed wealth, triggered mass unemployment and created an unprecedented loss of control on employment, monetary policy and government budgets.

Corporate governance in Australia and New Zealand

T HE recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Smith v. Henniker-Major & Co. [2002] EWCA Civ 762, [2002] 3 W.L.R. 1848 demonstrates the mess that the United Kingdom has made of its implementation of the First Directive of the European Union on harmonisation of company law and the interpretation of the legislation.