Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0058881

Zusammenfassung

The project investigates the relation between finance as an economic discipline and public law. Financial regulation casts economic knowledge into legal rules. However, economic knowledge is subject to permanent contestation and evolution. Legal rules are vague and might change their meaning over time. This can lead to interaction conflicts between economic knowledge and legal rules, as the recent financial crisis amply illustrates. Legal rules might lack the certainty which economic theories expect from them, while economic knowledge might not provide the guidance which the law ascrib...