The European asset management sector remains highly fragmented, resulting in a suboptimal size of funds and higher costs for investors.
Capital markets are needed to improve the funding of European corporates.
A lack of risk-sharing financial integration makes the financial system more prone to fragmentation when losses on financial claims materialise.
The consortium led by CEPS has contributed with the evidence-based research to support the work by ESMA
This paper maps the initiatives to support access to finance for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that were available at national level in 2012 in the five biggest Euro
This study considers the application of Directive 2004/25/EC on takeover bids from a legal and economic perspective. The legal review, carried-out by the international law firm M
As discussions around the revision of MiFID are heating up, this paper tries to set a new regulatory and institutional framework for multilateral and bilateral execution mechanis
Giovanni Calice, a professor at the University of Southampton, builds in this paper a new theoretical model for pricing of credit default swap (CDS) contracts with asymmetric col
This report summarises the main results of a survey conducted by the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) during the period December 2009 - July 2010.
Now that the worst of the financial storm is over, regulators are setting new strategies to deal with the systemic importance of the €427 trillion ($604 trillion) over-the-counte
This report by Fabrice Demarigny, Global Head of Capital Markets Activities of MAZARS Group, gives recommendation on establishing a proportionate regulatory and financial environ
This paper by Sebasian Lobe and Nils-Christian Schenk provides the first empirical evidence of fairness opinions in Europe.
