Private-Public Puzzles: Inter-firm competition and transnational private regulation

Friend or foe? The various responses of the Indonesian state to sustainable non-state palm oil initiatives

“…Additionally, producers with contracts up to 100,000 t annually argued that they had produced before the establishment of the protected area (Listiyarini 2017). This example of producers asking for state protection fits the argument of Mügge (2006) that producers often request state intervention to circumvent transnational private regulation.…”

The European presence in global financial governance: a principal–agent perspective

“…While the role of European Union (EU) bodies in international financial forums has received little attention to date (but see Bach and Newman 2007;Mügge 2006a;Posner 2009), the credit crisis starting in 2007 has shown how much is at stake. This paper analyses what it defines as the 'European presence' in global financial governance, examines how it has been influenced by different patterns of policy-making delegation from member states to supranational bodies, and traces variation in such patterns to underlying causes.…”

Licensing the gatekeeper? Public pathways, social significance and the ISDA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committees

“…A theory put forth by Daniel Mügge may thus be quite instructive in this respect. 130 Mügge reasons that where industries become dominated by a group of 'producer' firms, particularly those which organise themselves through trade associations, they can, despite exogenous shocks, be well positioned to define aspects of regulatory reform agendas from the outset. Or, as Mügge puts it, 'suggest "solutions" to problems they themselves helped define'.…”