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10 - Regulating financial markets: what we might learn from sovereign wealth funds

from Part III - Reforming finance: systemic risk and accountability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

Bertram Lomfeld
Affiliation:
Freie Universität Berlin
Alessandro Somma
Affiliation:
University of Ferrar
Peer Zumbansen
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Reshaping Markets
Economic Governance, the Global Financial Crisis and Liberal Utopia
, pp. 229 - 228
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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