CANER BAKIR is Associate Professor in the International Relations Department at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has worked as an Assistant Lecturer in the Accounting and Finance Department at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to this, he worked as a banking specialist. His areas of research include institutional analysis, public policy, globalisation and governance. His work has been published in a number of leading journals including Governance and Public Administration and he has published a book with Bilgi University Press. His research has been supported by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and COST ACTION ISO905 (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). Bakir received the Incentive Award in Political Science awarded by TUBITAK in 2010.

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Sources of bank behaviour: Interactions among structures, institutions and agents Institutional analysis and varieties of national financial systems Interactions among structures, institutions and agents that shape bank behaviour The political economy of prudential regulation in Australia The political economy of competition regulation in Australia Conclusion Notes References

This book provides new interdisciplinary and comparative answers as to why banking sectors in 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies operated under a shared set of rules during the Global Financial Crisis. Exploring the role of complex interactions among interdependent structures, institutions and agents defines this banking behaviour.