Table of Cases |
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Table of Legislation |
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List of Contributors |
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List of Abbreviations |
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Part I: General Aspects |
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1 Capital Markets Union after Brexit |
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V Better Regulation and Call for Evidence |
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2 CMU and the Deepening of Financial Integration |
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II Brief History of EU Financial Integration Policies |
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III CMU as a Risk Absorber |
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IV The Greatest Capital Market Integration: A Glimpse into the Economic History of the United States |
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3 A Stronger Role for the European Supervisory Authorities in the EU27 |
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II Pan-European Governance of the ESAs |
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III Direct ESA Supervision |
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IV Direct ESMA Supervision of CCPs |
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4 A Single Listing Authority and Securities Regulator for the CMU and the Future of ESMA: Costs, Benefits, and Legal Impediments |
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II Nature and Reach of ESMA Powers |
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III The Proposed EULA System |
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IV A Possible CMU-SEC and Configuration of Powers |
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V The Constitutionality of a Euro-SEC and EULA |
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Part II: Brexit |
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5 Some Aspects of the Impact of Brexit in the Field of Financial Services |
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III The Equivalence of Third Country Regulations or Standards |
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IV Euro Derivatives Clearing |
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6 Capital Markets Union, Third Countries, and Equivalence: Law, Markets, and Brexit |
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I Capital Markets Union, Regulation, and Equivalence |
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II CMU and its Investment Banker |
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III Third Country Rules, the UK, and CMU: Access and Export Implications |
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IV Managing Access and Export: The International Context |
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V Building a New Model: The EU Perspective and a Proposal |
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7 OTC Derivatives Clearing, Brexit, and the CMU |
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II Central Clearing of OTC Derivatives |
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III Brexit, EMIR, and Equivalence |
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IV Speculating on the Worst-case Scenario |
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V Network Strategies as an Alternative Solution |
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Part III: Financing Innovation, Start-Ups, Non-Listed Companies, And Infrastructure Projects |
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8 The Role of Financial Innovation in EU Market Integration and the Capital Markets Union: A Reconceptualization of Policy Objectives |
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171 | (22) |
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II Financial Innovation: A Principled Cost-Benefit Analysis |
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III EU Market Integration and Financial Law Harmonization |
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9 Capital Markets Union: Why 'Venture Capital' is not the Answer to Europe's Innovation Challenge |
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193 | (15) |
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III Stimulating Venture Capital |
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IV But ... Entrepreneurs Don't Always Benefit |
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V A Different Approach for Europe? |
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VI Both Cultures Need to Adapt |
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10 FinTech and Alternative Finance in the CMU: The Regulation of Marketplace Investing |
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II Economics and Technology of Alternative Finance |
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III Loan-based and Investment-based Crowdfunding: Characteristics and Comparison |
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IV Regulation of Crowdfunding Platforms: EU and Member States |
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V Policy Proposals and Conclusions |
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Part IV: Raising Capital On The Capital Markets |
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11 Modernizing the Prospectus Directive |
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II Background and Purposes of the Reformed Prospectus Rules |
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III Most Important Modifications |
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IV General Comments on the Prospectus Regulation: The Problem of the Information Paradigm |
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12 Small and Medium Enterprises Growth Markets |
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III A Critical Evaluation |
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IV An Alternative Proposal |
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13 Initial Public Offerings in the CMU: A US Perspective |
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II The Information-Asymmetry Problem |
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III Market-Based Solutions to Adverse-Selection Problems |
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IV Affirmative-Disclosure Regimes |
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V Mandated Liability Terms |
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VI Application to the CMU |
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14 Private Placements in the Capital Markets Union: A Priority Moving in Reverse? |
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II What is a Private Placement? |
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III A Closer Look at US Private Placements and European Market Initiatives |
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IV Private Placements in the CMU Agenda: Gradual De-prioritization |
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V Private Placements and the PD3 Regime |
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VI An Interim Scorecard on PEPPs in the CMU |
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15 Damages Actions by Investors on the Back of Market Disclosure Requirements |
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II Investor Actions and the Promotion of Disclosure |
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III Investor Litigation in the Context of Public Offerings |
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IV Investor Litigation in the Context of Continuing Disclosures |
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Part V: Fostering Retail And Institutional Investment |
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16 Investor Protection in the Capital Markets Union |
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341 | (31) |
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III Service Quality Requirements (Conduct of Business Rules) |
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17 A Policy Framework for European Personal Pensions? |
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Mark Heemskerk, Rene Maatman, Bas Werker |
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II Background: The Dutch Pensions System |
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III Towards Personal Pension in the Netherlands: The PPR |
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IV Obstacles to Realizing the PPR |
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V A Model for (European) PPP |
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18 Institutional Investors and Development of Europe's Capital Markets |
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395 | (18) |
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II Home Bias in the Literature |
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III Evolution of Institutional Investment and the Supply of Securities |
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IV Empirical Results on Home Bias and Euro-Area Bias |
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19 Cross-border Distribution of Collective Investment Products in the EU |
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Matteo Gargantini, Carmine Di Noia, Georgios Dimitropoulos |
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II The Regulatory Menu for Collective Investment Products: Taxonomy and Structural Implications |
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III The Disclosure Regime |
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IV Conduct of Business Rules |
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V Supervision on Product Regulation |
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VI Is the EU Passport Working? |
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VII Rules and Practices on Marketing and Distribution of Funds: Host Member States |
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VIII Rules and Practices on Marketing and Distribution of Funds: Home Member States |
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IX How to Address the Barriers |
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Part VI: Leveraging Banking Capacity To Support The Wider Economy |
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20 Relief from Prudential Requirements to Support the Capital Markets Union |
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445 | (19) |
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II The Impact of Capital Requirements of Banks on their Lending Portfolio: Comments from a Level Playing Field Perspective |
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III Capital Relief when Financing Small and Medium-sized Businesses |
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IV Equity Investments by Banks and Insurers: An Alternative for Traditional Lending? |
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V Relief for Banks Purchasing STS Securitization Positions |
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VI Capital Relief Insurers when Investing in Infrastructure |
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21 Securitization in the Capital Markets Union: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back |
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464 | (20) |
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II How the Securitization Reform Fits in the Capital Markets Union |
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III The Context: The European Securitization Market Pre and Post Crisis |
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IV The Legislative Proposal and Process |
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V The Securitization Regulation |
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VI The Regulation Amending the CRR |
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22 A Global Perspective on Securitized Debt |
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484 | (23) |
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II US Regulatory Responses |
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III European Regulatory Responses |
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IV Critiquing the US and European Regulatory Responses |
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V Rethinking the Regulatory Framework |
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Part VII: Facilitating Cross-Border Investing |
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23 Shareholder Activism in the CMU |
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507 | (19) |
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II Entrepreneurial Shareholder Activism |
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III Hedge Fund Activism as a Conflict of Entrepreneurship |
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IV The Shareholder Rights Directive: A Missed Opportunity |
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V Shareholder Rights Directive as Capital Market Regulation |
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24 Efforts to Strengthen the Clearing and Settlement Framework of the Capital Markets Union |
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526 | (30) |
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III The Transaction Chain |
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V CCP Recovery and Resolution |
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VIII Segregation under EMIR and the CSDR |
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IX Open Access and Competition between Market Infrastructures |
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25 Preventive Restructuring Frameworks |
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556 | (28) |
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II Background and Objectives of the Draft Directive |
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III Justification for Restructuring Plans |
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IV Preventive Restructuring Frameworks |
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26 Removing Cross-border Tax Barriers |
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584 | (19) |
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I The Long Shadow of National Tax Sovereignty over the Free Circulation of Capital |
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II Freedom of Capital Movements from Article 67 EEC to Article 63 TFEU |
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IV Tax Barriers in Cross-border Investments |
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