Regulating and Supervising Investment Services in the European Union

1. Front Matter

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2. Prologue

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      Pages 1-11

3. Why Supervise?

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   2. The Objectives of Financial Supervision

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4. How to Supervise?

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   2. The Single European Market in Investment and Financial Services

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   3. The Home Country Control Principle

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   4. The Institutional Design

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   5. Assessing Home Country Control and Mutual Recognition

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      Pages 102-142

5. Moving Ahead

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   2. The Case for a European Securities Regulator

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   3. Structure and Operation of the European Securities Regulator

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   4. Consolidating Financial Supervision

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6. Epilogue

   1. Epilogue

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7. Back Matter

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This book provides an extensive and critical assessment of the current regulatory and supervisory framework of investment services in the European Union (EU) and proposes alternative institutional structures. Recent trends in financial services at EU level as well as regulatory and institutional developments at national level make the focus of this book very timely. The book contributes to the debate by making specific suggestions with regard to the institutional structure and the operational sphere of a central pan-European regulator.

• assessment
• development
• economic integration
• efficiency
• European Union (EU)
• integration
• Investment
• liberalization
• service
• trends
• investments and securities

YANNIS AVGERINOS is Visiting Lecturer in European Financial Law at the University of London and Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is partner of the Avgerinos & Partners law firm and a member of the Athens Bar.

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