EURECON Outputs
This page presents the latest updates about the work-in-progress of the EURECON team, its publications and presentations.
Bank Regulation and Supervision (with C. Schenk)
This chapter establishes the rationale for regulation of banking and financial activity and then traces the evolution of national banking regulation and supervision in a range of countries. Particular attention is paid to the contrasting models in Europe, the USA and the People’s Republic of China; as well as the particular challenges in the globalised financial markets since the 1990s.
Institutionalizing Trust? Regular Summitry in the 70s-80s (with N. Bonhomme)
This chapter argues that summits tried to foster trust both “internally” and “externally”: summitry aimed at developing not only trust among the leaders, but also crucially trust with regard to the Western (economic) system. These two ambitions represented a vital transformation of the international system in the 1970s and 1980s.
Assessing the Role of G7/8/20 Meetings in Global Governance
G7/8/20 summits are often accused of many ills: club of the rich, producers of pointless communiqués, unduly gigantic gatherings, over-prepared meetings and media-show events – in a word, useless. This chapter argues for a more qualified assessment of their added value to global governance. This chapter assesses multilateral summitry along three lines, examining respectively the process (the G7 as a diplomatic instrument), the outcome (what agreements G7s actually reached) and the counterfactual (what if the G7 did not exist?).
Beyond deus ex machina: Rethinking the EMS creation, 1974-1979
The traditional story of European monetary cooperation in the 1970s following the abandonment of the Werner Plan in 1974, most often told …
Less than a Permanent Secretariat, More than an Ad-hoc Preparatory Group: a Prosopography of the G7 Personal Representatives, 1975-1991
This chapter explores one of the very distinctive features of the organisation of G7 summits, namely the group of personal representatives, or ‘sherpas’. Following a prosopographical approach, the study highlights a number of common characteristics among sherpas, in spite of the potential heterogeneity of this group. It further underscores the ambiguity of the G7 as an institution as well as the web of complex relations in which the G7 has embedded itself over time.
The Victory of the Intergovernmental Method? The Emergence of the European Council in the EEC’s Institutional Set-up, 1974-1977
Although its inception gave birth to lively debates and that it influenced the mode of decision making in the EEC, this chapter shows how the European Council found its place relatively smoothly in the Community decision-making process.
More than a Prestigious Spokesperson: the Role of Summits/the European Council in European Political Cooperation, 1969-1981
How did the emergence of the European Council (EUCO) affect an established order in a specific European policy area? This chapter shows the capacity of the EUCO, created in December 1974, to steer and change elements of the established order in one of these policy areas, namely European Political Co-operation (EPC).
Economist or Monetarist? The Difficult Creation of an Internal French Consensus about European Monetary Integration, 1974-1976
Within the monetary sphere, the 1970s were characterised by the opposition between two strategies for integration at the European level: the “economists” vs. “monetarists” debate. This chapter concentrates on the specific case of the monetary initiatives taken by France in 1974 and 1975.