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Banking on bonds: The new links between states and markets (2015)
Journal Article
Gabor, D., & Ban, C. (2016). Banking on bonds: The new links between states and markets. Journal of Common Market Studies, 54(3), 617-635. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12309

This article examines a neglected structural transformation in European finance: the growing importance of government debt as collateral for Europe's repo markets, where banks borrow cash against collateral. Seduced by the promises of repo market-dri... Read More about Banking on bonds: The new links between states and markets.

A step too far? The European financial transactions tax on shadow banking (2015)
Journal Article
Gabor, D. (2016). A step too far? The European financial transactions tax on shadow banking. Journal of European Public Policy, 23(6), 925-945. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1070894

This paper focuses on the European Commission's proposals to include the repo market – a market systemic to European (shadow) banking – in the financial transactions tax (FTT). It asks why the FTT governments negotiating under the enhanced co-operati... Read More about A step too far? The European financial transactions tax on shadow banking.

The IMF's Rethink of Global Banks: Critical in Theory, Orthodox in Practice (2015)
Journal Article
Gabor, D. (2015). The IMF's Rethink of Global Banks: Critical in Theory, Orthodox in Practice. Governance, 28(2), 199-218. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12107

© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new financial interconnectedness agenda, developed in response to postcrisis calls from G20 to better understand systemic financial institutions, deploys a critical approach that... Read More about The IMF's Rethink of Global Banks: Critical in Theory, Orthodox in Practice.