El código del capital

cómo la ley crea riqueza y desigualdad

El capital es la característica que define a las economías modernas pero la mayoría de la gente no tiene ni idea de dónde viene realmente. ¿Qué es, exactamente, lo que transforma la mera riqueza en un activo que automáticamente crea más riqueza? El Código del ...

The Age of ESMA

Governing EU Financial Markets

Since its establishment in 2011, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has become a pivotal actor in EU financial market regulation and supervision. Its burgeoning influence extends from the rule-making process to supervisory convergence/coordination to direct supervision. Reflecting the now critical importance of ...

Taking the floor

models, morals, and management in a Wall Street trading room

Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn’t depend solely on how it is structured—organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture ...

La protección del inversor minorista tras la completa transposición de la directiva MiFID II

La entrada en vigor de la Directiva 2004/39/CE (MiFID I) y posteriormente de su homóloga versión reformada, la Directiva 2014/65/UE (MiFID II), supusieron el triunfo de un compromiso político de relevante calado. El resultado normativo trajo consigo una significativa repercusión para ...

La regulación del mercado de valores y de las Instituciones de Inversión Colectiva

Una treintena de autores, expertos en la materia, tratan los aspectos principales de la normativa española de mercado de valores y de las Instituciones de Inversión Colectiva, regulación que ha registrado grandes transformaciones en los últimos años. La regulación que se analiza en esta monografía ...

Manual básico de bolsa

The AI book

the artificial intelligence handbook for investors, entrepreneurs and finTech visionaries

Written by prominent thought leaders in the global fintech space, The AI Book aggregates diverse expertise into a single, informative volume and explains what artifical intelligence really means and how it can be used across financial services today. Key industry developments are explained in detail ...

Mercado financiero desintermediado y ciclo regulatorio

El libro que el lector tiene en sus manos explica como la causa de la crisis financiera del año 2008 está en la descomposición de la naturaleza de la Ley en las sociedades Occidentales. El punto de vista es enormemente original. Se aleja de la ...

Probabilidad de incumplimiento e indicadores de riesgo en la banca europea

un enfoque regulatorio

Este proyecto de investigación propone la estimación de una nueva medida de riesgo bancario que considera el actual marco regulatorio de Basilea, la Probabilidad de Incumplimiento (Probability of Default- PD) estimada a partir del modelo SYMBOL (SYstemic Model of Bank Originated Losses). Tomando como referencia ...

Re-imagining offshore finance

market-dominant Small Jurisdictions in a globalizing financial world

Small jurisdictions have become significant players in cross-border corporate and financial services. Their nature, legal status, and market roles, however, remain under-theorized. Lacking a sufficiently nuanced framework to describe their functions in cross-border finance - and the peculiar strengths of those achieving global dominance in the ...

Discovering prices

auction design in markets with complex constraints

Traditional economic theory studies idealized markets in which prices alone can guide efficient allocation, with no need for central organization. Such models build from Adam Smith’s famous concept of an invisible hand, which guides markets and renders regulation or interference largely unnecessary. Yet for ...

Money, markets, and democracy

politically skewed financial markets and how to fix them

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways that politics and financial markets impact one another. In this relationship, politics is the ultimate controlling force. The kinds and prices of financial instruments that get traded and the individuals and institutions that get to trade ...

The capital markets

evolution of the financial ecosystem

The Definitive Guide to Capital Markets Today and Tomorrow The Capital Markets breaks new ground with its peerless coverage of the evolution of the financial ecosystem, with a keen focus on the myriad changes since the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009. Developed by industry ...

Systemic risk, institutional design, and the regulation of financial markets

Following the recent financial crisis, regulators have been preoccupied with the concept of systemic risk in financial markets, believing that such risk could cause the markets that they oversee to implode. At the same time, they have demonstrated a certain inability to develop and implement ...

The economics, regulation, and systemic risk of insurance markets

Despite the importance of insurance in enabling individual and collective social, economic, and financial activities, discussions about the macro-economic role and risks of insurance markets are surprisingly limited. The core motivation for publishing this book is to bring together academics, regulators, and industry experts to ...

Foreign investment Law in a nutshell

Foreign investment is commonplace around the globe. Inbound and outbound foreign investment flows are massive as home country investors merge or acquire existing businesses or establish new companies in host countries. Investors purchase stocks and bonds on foreign exchanges, and sometimes foreign sovereign debt. The ...

Competition and stability in banking

the role of regulation and competition policy

Does too much competition in banking hurt society? What policies can best protect and stabilize banking without stifling it? Institutional responses to such questions have evolved over time, from interventionist regulatory control after the Great Depression to the liberalization policies that started in the United ...

Evolution of the exchange industry

from dealer's clubs to multinational companies

This book describes the dramatic changes that have occurred in the exchange industry during the past two decades. The strategies adopted by major world exchanges during this period are explained and the roles of multilateral trading systems and over-the-counter (OTC) players are clearly described, highlighting ...

Europe's untapped capital market

rethinking financial integration after the crisis

This book builds on a year-long discussion with a group of academics, policy-makers and industry experts to provide a long-term contribution to the Capital Markets Union project, launched by the European Commission in 2015. It identifies 36 cross-border barriers to capital markets integration and provides ...

Private regulation and the internal market

sports, legal services, and standard setting in EU economic Law

How does EU internal market law, in particular the rules on free movement and competition, apply to private regulation? What issues arise if a bar association were to regulate advertising; when a voluntary product standard impedes trade; or when a sporting body restricts the cross-border ...