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Corporate Law Rules in Emergency Times Across Europe

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread worldwide like wildfire turning from a public health crisis into what appears to be the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. In addition to...

5 April 2021

Angelo Borselli

Ignacio Farrando Miguel

Business Shutdowns in Light of Substitution Effects: Why Some Covid-19 Mitigation Strategies Fail

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the global economy, regulators are struggling to find cost-effective mitigation strategies. The goal of such strategies should be simple: reduce the spread of...

10 February 2021

Jan-Philip Elm

Roee Sarel

European Legal Limits for the Recovery Fund

The political responses to the Covid-19 pandemic present unprecedented and acute challenges for the EU Member States’ financial and economic systems. To cushion the economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis,...

29 January 2021

Caroline Heber

'Never again' (or not?)—The European bail-in regime has yet to solve the systemic problem of implicit government guarantees

'Never again' was the impassioned conviction of governments worldwide after being forced to bail out banking institutions and provide guarantees and capital to avert systemic collapse as a result of...

A Law and Economics Analysis of the European Takeover Directive: What about Enforcement?

A vast literature studies the role of institutions, such as regulation, for economic outcomes. An implicit assumption in many theoretical and empirical studies in the field is that the law...

11 January 2021

Paul P Momtaz

State Aid to Banks in the EU: Still Fit for Purpose?

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, EU Member States granted vast amounts of state aid to financial institutions in order to preserve financial stability and avoid...

15 December 2020

Dimitrios Kyriazis

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: 'Diagnosis Before Treatment: The Use and Misuse of Evidence in Policymaking'

I commend the European Commission for producing an extremely timely report and for being committed to ensuring that business works for wider society, not just short-term profit.However, given the substantial...

30 October 2020

Alex Edmans

GDPR Compliance in Light of Heavier Sanctions to Come—at Least in Theory

Ridiculously low ceilings on administrative fines hindered the effectiveness of EU data protection law for over twenty years. US tech giants may have seen these fines as a cost of...

29 October 2020

W. Gregory Voss

Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas

Building a European market for crypto-assets: Who’s afraid of Libra?

The European Commission has just proposed a new regime for regulating cryptoassets in the EU. The new ‘Digital Finance Package’ includes a number of interesting features. Its centrepiece...

27 October 2020

Wolf-Georg Ringe

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: ‘A Response From the Copenhagen Business School’

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Study on directorsʼ duties and sustainable corporate governance report prepared by EY and published and submitted by the European Commission for...

Corporate Law Rules in Emergency Times Across Europe

Business Shutdowns in Light of Substitution Effects: Why Some Covid-19 Mitigation Strategies Fail

European Legal Limits for the Recovery Fund

'Never again' (or not?)—The European bail-in regime has yet to solve the systemic problem of implicit government guarantees

A Law and Economics Analysis of the European Takeover Directive: What about Enforcement?

State Aid to Banks in the EU: Still Fit for Purpose?

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: 'Diagnosis Before Treatment: The Use and Misuse of Evidence in Policymaking'

GDPR Compliance in Light of Heavier Sanctions to Come—at Least in Theory

Building a European market for crypto-assets: Who’s afraid of Libra?

EC Corporate Governance Initiative Series: ‘A Response From the Copenhagen Business School’

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