Category: Sean Vanatta

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Risk, Discretion, and Bank Supervision

Peter Conti-Brown (University of Pennsylvania) and Sean Vanatta (University of Glasgow)

Using the rich history of supervision in the United States from the antebellum period to the present, this article presents a theoretical conception of supervision as the space where bankers and the government engage each other in sometimes cooperative, sometimes contentious disputes with substantial influence on the direction of financial and economic policy.
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The Financialization of U.S. Public Pensions, 1945-1974

Sean Vanatta, University of Glasgow

This article examines a major transformation in public employee pension investment in the United States. Ultimately, financialization was not the product of a radical break or crisis in the 1970s, but was a continuous process in the post-World War II era, one initially pursued by state and local government officials in service of welfare liberalism.
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