Knowledge Capture in Financial Regulation

Eva Becker assesses the US financial crisis as a crisis of regulatory data, information and knowledge. Based on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's interviews as well her own interviews, and drawing on Capture Theory and recent reformulations thereof, she develops knowledge capture as a theoretic framework to assess financial regulation under conditions of 21st century complexity. ContentsNarratives of the Global Financial CrisisMulti-Level Complexity: The 21st Century Financial SystemUS Policy Responses to the CrisisKnowledge Asymmetries and the Idea of Knowledge-Based RegulationKnowledge Capture in Financial Regulation: A Theoretic FrameworkTarget GroupsLecturers and students of Political Science, Sociology and EconomicsExperts for Financial Market RegulationThe AuthorEva Becker holds a degree in communication management, philosophy and comparative literature (BA at University of Leipzig, Germany) and public management and governance (MA at Zeppelin University, Germany). From 2012 to 2014, she worked as a research associate on Helmut Willke's research project policy responses to systemic risk, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).