Central Banks in Organizational Networks

This interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study unravels the social processes of decision-making at the interface of central banks and financial market participants and thereby raises important questions about responsible central bank governance and its obligations to other stakeholders in society.

Autorentext

Christoph F-D. Wu, PhD, is an organisational sociologist, currently working as a senior researcher in organisational wellbeing at Norwich Business School. Previously, he gained 14 years of business experience in senior investment management and business development roles. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a holder of the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing.

Inhalt

1. The field of actors: central banks and the asset management industry, 2. Network theory? Social and organisational networks in financial markets, 3. Corporate interlocking networks and portfolio holdings: a method to study organisational networks in financial markets, 4. Portfolio rebalancing and imitation: central bank influence and network dynamics, 5. Home bias and homophily in the sovereign debt markets of the eurozone, 6. Central banks and expert networks: the case of the European Central Bank's Bond Market Contact Group, 7. Adaptive processes, strategies and network behaviour, 8. Bringing it all together: entangled market actors, responsible central banking and stakeholder engagement