... and expertise and to position Ireland as an international provider of educational services. A centre for advanced study in finance is a current government priority (Department of the Taoiseach, 2011). Ethics Regulation Europe Educational development Academic Warren (2008) compared...

.... There are also implications for regulators and standard setters, though these are less obvious. Originality/value This is the first study on the explanatory power of loan fair values in Europe. It addresses loan fair values, and the European market, while previous literature has mainly concerned the US...

... is addressed via a legislative analysis of the evolving approach to the financial regulation of energy and environmental markets in Europe. The regulation of financial risks posed by energy and environmental markets are important to consider for three reasons. First, the liberalisation of the energy sector...

... Management, the drying up of liquidity could well happen again. The economy would again face a financial crisis, this time, however, with fully capitalised banks. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 European legislation Regulation Europe Banking Civil engineering On the 19 July...

...Giovanni Petrella Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate how markets in financial instruments directive (MiFID) and regulation national market system (Reg NMS) affect the competition for order flow among trading venues in, respectively, Europe and the USA. Design/methodology/approach...

...John Goddard; Phil Molyneux; John O.S. Wilson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of the financial crisis in Western Europe, primarily from a country‐level and banking sector perspective, from 2007 to the spring of 2009. It aims to detail measures enacted by governments...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Regulation United Kingdom Europe Financial services Authority Reports As recently as a year ago, as the credit crunch was just beginning to emerge, the regulatory system seemed in reasonably good shape across the world. Few, if any, key...

... of competition policy at the EU level. Section 4 discusses the measurement of competition in the banking industry whereas Section 5 presents the results of the empirical analysis. Section 6 concludes. At the beginning of the 1990s, it was a widespread belief that the banking sector in Europe would enter...

...Peter G. Dunne Purpose The debate over the possible extension of transparency regulation in Europe to include sovereign bonds has opened up a number of other issues in need of serious consideration. One such issue is the appropriateness of the entire infrastructure supporting the trading...

...‐operation and day to day working arrangements by: Michael McKee can be contacted at: michael.mcKee@uwclub.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Economic convergence Financial services Europe On 5th May 2006 the Finance Ministers of the European Council (ECOFIN) adopted...

...Heiko Schmiedel; Andreas Schönenberger Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the state of integration of securities market infrastructure in Europe. Design/methodology/approach Given the lack of quantitative and price‐based measures, this paper adopts a rather qualitative...

... of exchanges, trading systems and other market infrastruture providers. He also advises on onshore and o shore funds, including private equity funds, property funds and hedge funds. ABSTRACT KEYWORDS: Europe, electronic commerce, money laundering, telecommunication services Background to the European...