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Spain; IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation: Detailed Assessment Implementation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This paper assesses implementation of the International Organization of Securities Commissions' (IOSCO) objectives and principles of securities regulation in Spain. Spain exhibits a high level of implementation of principles. The legal framework is robust and provides the Comisión Nacional de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244892
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New Zealand; Financial Sector Assessment Program—Detailed Assessments of Observance of Standards and Codes—International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO)—Objecti...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This paper evaluates the Observance of Standards and Codes on the International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO) Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation for New Zealand. New Zealand equity markets are comparatively small with market capitalization of about 44 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768600
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Sweden; Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Detailed Assessment of Observance on IOSCO Principles and Objectives of Securities Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper provides an assessment of the level of implementation of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Principles in Sweden’s securities market. The assessment has identified several significant weaknesses in the scope and effectiveness of securities market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243802
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Austria; Financial Sector Assessment Program Update Technical Note: Factual Update and Analysis of the IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This technical note focuses on the International Organization of Securities Commissions objectives and principles of securities regulations of Austria. The 2003 assessment found that Austria had fully broadly implemented a large majority of principles. The human resources of the Securities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244489
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Doing battle with short sellers: The conflicted role of blockholders in bear raids
Khanna, Naveen; Mathews, Richmond D. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 106 (2012) 2, pp. 229-246
If short sellers can destroy firm value by manipulating prices down, an informed blockholder has a powerful natural incentive to protect the value of his stake by trading against them. However, he also has a potentially conflicting incentive to use his information to generate trading profits. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593825
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Security Market Manipulation
Spatt, Chester - In: Annual Review of Financial Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 405-418
This article uses a variety of contemporary developments to address artificial market pricing and market manipulation …. It examines a variety of modern trading tactics and manipulation strategies in the context of trading and order mechanics …. For example, I raise the connection between so-called best execution, cancellation rates, and manipulation. I explore the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094551
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Portugal; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Detailed Assessment of Observance of IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This Detailed Assessment of the Observance of International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation for Portugal assesses the securities market. The legal and regulatory framework authorizes banks to provide investment services under a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244809
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Monaco; Assessment of Financial Sector Supervision and Regulation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper discusses key findings of the assessment of Financial Sector Supervision and Regulation (FSSR) for Monaco. Since the 2002 Offshore Financial Center assessment, the Principality of Monaco has taken important steps to further strengthen an already comprehensive legal framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245014
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Kingdom of Bahrain; Financial System Stability Assessment, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics, Banking Supervision, Insurance Superv...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The Kingdom of Bahrain’s Financial System Stability Assessment highlights banking supervision, insurance supervision, securities regulation, and antimoney laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. The banking sector is well capitalized. Asset quality has been improving and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252632
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The Speculative Nature of Stock Market
FILIPESCU, Bogdan-Gabriel - In: Economia. Seria Management 14 (2011) 2, pp. 527-534
"speculative" can be also interpreted in a negative direction, i.e. in combination with market manipulation or market abuse … those that constitute market manipulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385984