Investor Protection in Europe: Regulatory Competition and Harmonization

ISBN-13: 9780199202911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 544 str.

Guido Ferrarini; Eddy Wymeersch

Opis

This collection of essays examines investor protection in Europe. It offers a broad and coherent examination of the effects of regulatory competition versus harmonization, and covers both capital market and company law perspectives. Including coverage of both the EU and the US, this volume analyses the recent Markets in Financial Instruments European Directive, and explores clearing, settlement, prospectuses, and transparency regulation.

O autorze

Guido Ferrarini is Professor of Law at the University of Genoa and Director of the Centre for Law and Finance. Eddy Wymeersch is Professor at the University of Ghent and Chairman of the Banking, Finance, and Insurance Commission in Brussels. They have been involved with several successful volumes including Corporate Governance in Context: Corporations, States, and Markets in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. (Hopt, Wymeersch, Kanda, and Baum eds. OUP forthcoming 2006), Reforming Company and Takeover Law in Europe (Ferrarini, Hopt, Winter, and Wymeersch eds., OUP 2004), and Capital Markets and Company Law (Hopt and Wymeersch eds., OUP 2003).