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3 - ‘Inside’ and ‘outside’ the firm: corporate law and contract governance as regulatory theories

from Part I - Crisis and normality in transnational market regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

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Bertram Lomfeld
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Freie Universität Berlin
Alessandro Somma
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University of Ferrar
Peer Zumbansen
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King's College London
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Reshaping Markets
Economic Governance, the Global Financial Crisis and Liberal Utopia
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