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.

In the specially adapted and updated versions of the papers given at the Siena Conference of March 2000, the contributors attempt to investigate the relationship between company law, securities markets and securities regulation, or 'Capital Market Law'. This is an interdisciplinary project, involving scholars and practitioners of law and economics, policy makers, and corporate finance and management specialists from both sides of the Atlantic. It illustrates the increasing competitive pressure under which regulatory systems are developing, driven by market forces and regulatory competition....

Significant increases in regulatory competition have sharpened the comparative awareness of advantages of different national models of political economy, governance and regulation. The most important change in this regard is a shift in governance from state to the market. The transition from corporatist governance to market governance poses a daunting challenge to regulators and academics. This book addresses these challenges in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, including the world's three leading economies and their legal systems: the EU, the U.S., and Japan.

This comprehensive account of financial regulation and supervision in times of crisis analyses the complex changes under way regarding the new financial regulatory structures in the EU. Focusing on the organisation of financial supervision, it deals with the background to the reforms, the architecture of the regulatory system, the likely implications for the financial institutions and the challenge of international co-operation.
Changes in the US have been heavily criticised and in Europe a brand new regulatory system with three new regulatory agencies and a systemic risk board has been...