Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: Prior Conditions, Implementation, and Enforcement
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 407/2014
Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-04
79 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 2011 Last revised: 6 Apr 2016
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Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: Prior Conditions, Implementation, and Enforcement
Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: Prior Conditions, Implementation, and Enforcement
Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: Prior Conditions, Implementation, and Enforcement
Date Written: March 31, 2016
Abstract
We examine the capital-market effects of changes in securities regulation in the European Union (EU) aimed at reducing market abuse and increasing transparency. To estimate causal effects for the population of EU firms, we exploit that for plausibly exogenous reasons, like national legislative procedures, EU countries adopted these directives at different times. We find significant increases in market liquidity, but the effects are stronger in countries with stricter implementation and traditionally more stringent securities regulation. The findings suggest that countries with initially weaker regulation do not catch up with stronger countries, and that countries diverge more upon harmonizing regulation.
Keywords: Capital market regulation, Enforcement, Disclosure, Law and finance, European Union, Liquidity
JEL Classification: F30, G15, G18, G30, K22, M41
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