scholarly journals Fiscal fault, financial fix? Capital Markets Union and the quest for macroeconomic stabilization in the Euro Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Braun ◽  
Marina Hübner
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Macroeconomic Stabilization ◽  
European Monetary ◽  
Macroeconomic Conditions ◽  
Structural Capacity ◽  
Capital Markets Union ◽  
Fiscal Austerity ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
The Impact

This article seeks to situate and explain the European Union’s push for a Capital Markets Union – and thus for a more market-based financial system – in the broader context of macroeconomic governance in politically fractured polities. The current governance structure of the European Monetary Union severely limits the capacity of both national and supranational actors to provide a core public good: macroeconomic stabilization. While member states have institutionalized fiscal austerity and abandoned other macroeconomic levers, the European polity lacks the fiscal resources necessary to achieve stable macroeconomic conditions – smoothing the business cycle, ensuring growth and job creation and mitigating the impact of output shocks on consumption. Capital Markets Union, we argue, is the attempt of European policymakers to devise a financial fix to this structural capacity gap. Using its regulatory powers, the Commission, supported by the European Central Bank (ECB), seeks to harness private financial markets and instruments to provide the public policy good of macroeconomic stabilization. We trace how technocrats, think tanks, and financial-sector lobbyists, through the strategic use of knowledge and expertise, established securitization and market-based finance as solutions to the European Monetary Union’s governance problems.

scholarly journals Fiscal fault, financial fix? Capital Markets Union and the quest for macroeconomic stabilization in the euro area

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Braun ◽  
Marina Hübner
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Macroeconomic Stabilization ◽  
Macroeconomic Conditions ◽  
Structural Capacity ◽  
Capital Markets Union ◽  
Fiscal Austerity ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Use Of Knowledge ◽  
The Impact

This paper argues that Capital Markets Union – the EU’s attempt to establish a more market-based financial system – is a result less of financial policymaking than of macroeconomic governance in a politically fractured polity. The current governance structure of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) severely limits the capacity of both national and supranational actors to provide a core public good, macroeconomic stabilization. While member states have institutionalized fiscal austerity and abandoned other macroeconomic levers, the European polity lacks the fiscal resources necessary to achieve stable macroeconomic conditions: smoothing the business cycle, ensuring growth and job creation, and mitigating the impact of asymmetric output shocks on consumption. Capital Markets Union, we argue, is an attempt by European policymakers to devise a financial fix for this structural capacity gap. Using its regulatory powers, the European Commission, supported by the European Central Bank (ECB), seeks to harness private financial markets and instruments to provide the public policy good of macroeconomic stabilization. We trace how technocrats, think tanks, and financial-sector lobbyists, through the strategic use of knowledge and expertise, established securitization and market-based finance as solutions to EMU’s governance problems.

Prospectus Regulation and Prospectus Liability

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Securities Litigation ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Prospectus Liability ◽  
Capital Markets Union ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Rome I ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

This book provides integrated analysis of and guidance on the Prospectus Regulation 2017, civil liability for a misleading prospectus, and securities litigation in a European context. The prospectus rules are one of the cornerstones of the EU Capital Markets Union and analysis of this aspect of harmonisation, the areas not covered by the rules, and the impact of Brexit, provides valuable reference for all advising and researching this field. The book discusses the subjects of Prospectus Regulation from both a legal and economic perspective. It focuses on key subjects of the new Prospectus Regulation, providing an in-depth analysis of each issue. The book then moves on to explain the domestic law on liability for a misleading prospectus, this issue being omitted from the Regulation. The law and practice in each of the key capital markets centres in Europe is analysed and compared, with the UK chapter covering the issues and possible solutions under Brexit. A chapter on securities litigation gives full consideration of conflicts of laws issues with reference to the Brussels I regulation, and the Rome I and II Regulations. The book concludes by looking to the future of disclosure practices in connection with securities offerings in the EU.

scholarly journals Capital Markets Union: Opportunities and Impact on the European Financial Market

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-157
Author(s):  
Teodora Cristina Barbu ◽  
Adina Ionela Străchinaru
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Banking Market ◽  
Capital Markets Union ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Credit Standards ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In developing this study we started from challenges and debates that capital markets union project engages, launched by the European Commission during 2015, both in academia and the specialists, regulators and investors. The article is structured in three parts, as follows: in the first part are highlighted theoretical and conceptual issues on the need for a union of capital markets, the second part presents empirical evidence from literature relating to this issue and in the third an econometric model is described, which aims to demonstrate the potential that Capital Markets Union may involve on increasing financing through the capital market. The contribution of this article to prior knowledge in the field consists of filling conceptual approach on the impact that Capital Markets Union will actively engage on the European financial market. The added value by our scientific approach is to highlight the complementarity between capital and banking market. Between IPO dynamics, as a representative indicator of capital market and a significant set of indicators of financial market as Stoxx Europe 600 index, the size of capital markets, changes in credit standards and key rate of the monetary policy of ECB is manifested correlations terms denoting the potential impact that Capital Markets Union will have on European financial markets.

The Impact of a Capital Markets Union in Europe

CFA Magazine ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 51-51
Author(s):  
Maiju Hamunen
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Markets Union ◽  
The Impact

A Study on Investment Decision of Investors With Reference to Penetration of Mutual Funds in India

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratish C Gupta ◽  
Dr. Manish Mittal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Fund Industry ◽  
Mutual Fund Industry ◽  
The Impact

The Indian mutual fund industry is one of the fastest growing and most competitive segments of the financial sector. The extent of under-penetration in the market is a sore point with the financial services industry, with a large amount of savings being channelized into fixed deposits, gold and real estate rather than the capital markets. The mutual fund industry is yet to spread its reach beyond Tier I cities. The top fifteen cities contribute to 85% of the pie, with the remaining 15% distributed among other cities. The study seeks to determine the impact of decision making of investors on current situation of mutual fund industry.

Private Placements in the Capital Markets Union

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank GB Graaf
Keyword(s):  
Capital Markets ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Private Placement ◽  
Private Placements ◽  
Capital Markets Union

This chapter looks at recent initiatives in the context of the European Commission's flagship plans for a Capital Markets Union (CMU) designed to encourage a pan-European private placement market. In reality, private placements are mainly available as a funding tool for medium-sized and larger companies. Nonetheless, private placements are regarded by CMU's policymakers as an alternative source of long-term funding, which is simple enough for smaller corporates and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), and with benefits that they might find attractive. The Commission's initial intention in the design of a CMU was to enable a greater use by SMEs of private placements.

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