Systemic implications of transatlantic regulatory cooperation and competition (World Scientific, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references
Condemned to cooperate? -- The banking crisis: causes, consequences and remedies -- The political economy of transatlantic regulatory cooperation and competition: a (unofficial) view from Europe -- How hard and soft law interact in international regulatory governance: alternatives, complements and antagonists -- EU-US regulatory cooperation and developing country trade -- Transatlantic trade, the automotive sector: the role of regulation in a global industry, where we have been and where we need to go, how far can EU-US cooperation go toward achieving regulatory harmonization? -- Systemic implications of deeper transatlantic convergence in competition/antitrust policy -- Transatlantic regulatory cooperation on chemicals -- an idealist's dream? -- Transatlantic regulatory cooperation on accounting standards: a 'varieties of capitalism' perspective -- Transatlantic regulatory competition and cooperation in pharmaceuticals
Regulations and enforcement decisions that at first appear to have only a domestic impact can have substantial spillover effects on other nations' economies. Experience has shown time and again that there is no reason to expect that these effects are confined to jurisdictions at the same level of development. Governments on both sides of the Atlantic recognize this, yet their responses in many policy areas are not aligned - sometimes deliberately so. This creates a complex regulatory landscape that appears to be the product of both cooperation and competition, and which can only be fully under