The Incommensurables: The arduous art of making a regulatory indicator

Shirley Kempeneer and Wouter Van Dooren
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Wouter Van Dooren: University of Antwerp

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Abstract: The stress test of the European Central Bank has become one of the primary regulatory tools for the European banking system. In order to make such a regulatory indicator, different national banks need to be made comparable according to a common metric. Despite a substantive literature, little empirical work has been done on the social and political processes through which these indicators are made. We use Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to study how commensuration is negotiated. We find that despite a preference for commensuration, regulators allow ‘incommensurable’ categories to exist because of their unrecognised regulatory benefits.

Date: 2019-03-19
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