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I. The environmental determinants and real impact of financial regulation -- Regulating financial markets - an LTF perspective / Katharina Pistor -- The information, and the regulation of inefficient markets / David C. Donald -- The information gap between institutional and retail investors during the IPO process / Shuonan Chen -- Finance, intangibles and the privatization of knowledge / Ugo Pagano -- II. The political economic analysis of regulatory choices -- Bank lobbying : regulatory capture and beyond / Deniz Igan and Thomas Lambert -- The social psychology of financial regulatory governance / Giuliano G. Castellano and Geneviève Helleringer -- The role of political economy in designing banking regulation : the Israeli bank fees reform as a test case / Ruth Plato-Shinar -- Choosing among authorities for consumer financial protection in Taiwan : a legal theory of finance perspective / Chang Hsien Tsai -- The political economy of Indian microfinance : an application of LTF to the Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis of 2010 / Nikhilesh Sinha -- III. The political economy of global financial regulation : cooperation, discord and conflict -- The incomplete global financial order and spillovers from instability in trade and currency market regimes / Emilios Avgouleas -- The politics of commodity derivatives reform in the EU and the USA / Jakob Engel -- The political economy of cross-border banking regulation in emerging Europe, 2004-2010 / Ivaylo Iaydjiev -- The preferential treatment of government debt in financial law : the case of Europe / Ad Van Riet -- IV. Financial regulation and state capitalism : a political economic perspective -- Rethinking state control over the PRC financial system : the black box of proactive intervention / Guo Li and Xia Daile -- The political economy of China's shadow banking / Shen Wei -- The A-share bailout and the role of China's securities watchdog in regulating a policy-driven market / Jin Sheng.