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Competition law underpins the market economy by prohibiting anti-competitive agreements and practices, and the abuse of dominant positions in the market. Until the financial crisis it was widely assumed that the financial services industry was highly competitive. This book explores the extent to which this is the case.
By analysing crisis and pre-crisis competition law cases and examples from the UK, the EU and around the world, David Harrison asks whether there exists good reason for financial services to be treated differently from the rest of the market economy. The theory of market efficiency is not borne out in practice. He particularly draws upon John Maynard Keynes in examining the differences between price mechanisms in product markets for "normal" goods, and price mechanisms in financial and investment markets where expectations of the future tend to play a greater role, leading to greater price fluctuations.
In this evaluation, the book examines aspects of the practical functioning of capital markets such as the phenomenon of herding behaviour by financial participants, how short-term behaviour by intermediaries can be to the disadvantage of savers and productive investment, the relationship between investment markets and product markets and the extent to which the same competition rules apply to undertakings involved in both. The book will be invaluable to students, researchers and practitioners of banking and finance law, and commercial and competition law.
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Show moreCompetition law underpins the market economy by prohibiting anti-competitive agreements and practices, and the abuse of dominant positions in the market. Until the financial crisis it was widely assumed that the financial services industry was highly competitive. This book explores the extent to which this is the case.
By analysing crisis and pre-crisis competition law cases and examples from the UK, the EU and around the world, David Harrison asks whether there exists good reason for financial services to be treated differently from the rest of the market economy. The theory of market efficiency is not borne out in practice. He particularly draws upon John Maynard Keynes in examining the differences between price mechanisms in product markets for "normal" goods, and price mechanisms in financial and investment markets where expectations of the future tend to play a greater role, leading to greater price fluctuations.
In this evaluation, the book examines aspects of the practical functioning of capital markets such as the phenomenon of herding behaviour by financial participants, how short-term behaviour by intermediaries can be to the disadvantage of savers and productive investment, the relationship between investment markets and product markets and the extent to which the same competition rules apply to undertakings involved in both. The book will be invaluable to students, researchers and practitioners of banking and finance law, and commercial and competition law.
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Show more1. Introduction 2. The Single Market Background 3. Theory 4. Practice 5. Capital Markets 6. Banks (I): Structural Issues 7. Banks (II): Behavioural Issues 8. Analysis 9. Remedies
David Harrison is Senior Counsel specialising in EU/competition law at Bond Dickinson LLP. He has a background in economic and financial public policy issues, and has been speechwriter for the Foreign Secretary and the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is author of The Organisation of Europe (Routledge, 1995).
David Harrison shows how and why regulation of the financial
markets has failed in the past - and explains how this policy
failure can be corrected, by applying proper competition policy
principles to the sector in the future. Like his previous book, The
Organisation of Europe, the analysis is innovative, elegant and
thought-provoking. Anthony Teasdale (author, The Penguin Companion
to European Union)Harrison’s latest work is one of outstanding
vision, clarity and concision. Drawing on Keynesian economics, and
questioning the received wisdom that finance is self-correcting and
efficient, Harrison explains how markets for financial services
differ from markets for goods, what the defects specific to their
operation are, and how these can be remedied by the application of
competition law. In the process, Harrison outlines a plausible
complement (or, perhaps, alternative) to dedicated financial
markets regulation. Recommended, for experts and lay readers alike.
Phoebus Athanassiou (Senior Legal Counsel, European Central Bank,
Frankfurt)To borrow from Keynes, David Harrison has found a new way
of looking at the banking sector’s ‘magneto trouble’. He applies
relentless legal logic to a problem which caused the recent
financial crisis and has yet to be resolved. As regulators amend
their rule books and devise new bank resolution mechanisms, they
will be well advised to pay attention to this important book’s
recommendations. Thus may they pre-empt further turmoil, protect
deposits and serve the public interest.Philip Ward
David Harrison shows how and why regulation of the financial
markets has failed in the past - and explains how this policy
failure can be corrected, by applying proper competition policy
principles to the sector in the future. Like his previous book, The
Organisation of Europe, the analysis is innovative, elegant and
thought-provoking. Anthony Teasdale (author, The Penguin Companion
to European Union)Harrison’s latest work is one of outstanding
vision, clarity and concision. Drawing on Keynesian economics, and
questioning the received wisdom that finance is self-correcting and
efficient, Harrison explains how markets for financial services
differ from markets for goods, what the defects specific to their
operation are, and how these can be remedied by the application of
competition law. In the process, Harrison outlines a plausible
complement (or, perhaps, alternative) to dedicated financial
markets regulation. Recommended, for experts and lay readers alike.
Phoebus Athanassiou (Senior Legal Counsel, European Central Bank,
Frankfurt)To borrow from Keynes, David Harrison has found a new way
of looking at the banking sector’s ‘magneto trouble’. He applies
relentless legal logic to a problem which caused the recent
financial crisis and has yet to be resolved. As regulators amend
their rule books and devise new bank resolution mechanisms, they
will be well advised to pay attention to this important book’s
recommendations. Thus may they pre-empt further turmoil, protect
deposits and serve the public interest.Philip Ward
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