Capital-market effects of securities regulation
Subtitle: the role of implementation and enforcement
By: Hans B. Christensen, Luzi Hail, Christian Leuz
Contributors: Hail, Luzi; Leuz, Christian, 1967-; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16737; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16737.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
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Description: "This paper examines capital market effects of changes in securities regulation.  We analyze two key capital market directives in the European Union (EU) that tightened market abuse and transparency regulation and, in particular, their enforcement.  All EU member states were required to adopt these two directives but did so at different points in time.  Our research design exploits this differential timing of the same regulatory change for identification and uses cross-sectional variation in the capital-market effects to highlight the role of implementation and enforcement for regulatory outcomes.  We find that, on average, market liquidity increases and firms' cost of capital decreases as EU member states tighten market abuse and transparency regulation.  The effects are larger in countries that implement and enforce the directives more strictly.  They are also stronger in countries with traditionally stricter securities regulation and with a better track record of implementing regulation and government policies in general.  Overall, these findings show that the effects of regulation depend crucially on implementation and enforcement.  Moreover, the results indicate that the same forces that have limited the effectiveness of securities regulation in the past are still at play when new rules are introduced, which has important implications for the expected outcomes of regulatory reforms as well as efforts to harmonize regulation across countries"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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