- A combined practical and theoretical comparison of UK and EU corporate finance law giving unique perspectives and a forward looking approach.- Addresses key issues arising from the financial crisis, such as the scope for innovation in legal markets, as well as anticipating issues likely to be...

This article points out that procurement law is likely to have the side effect of hindering the development of IPPP contracts by introducing uncertainties regarding IPPP contracts´ classification for the purpose of its procurement. Keeping in mind the Commission´s policy of promoting IPPP...

At the beginning of 2014, the European Parliament and the Council adopted the new directive on public procurement. Inter alia, the new Directive introduces a new procedure called the innovation partnership. The availability of the new provisions maybe valuable particularly from the perspective...

Based on an assumption that in its current shape the EU public procurement framework is a highly regulated and rigid system, in which delivery of successful PPP contracts may be hindered, in this paper it will be considered, whether there could be a different, more beneficial way in which to...

This article examines the birth and development of the OMT program and its implications for the EU integration process. Following this, the OMT case is analyzed from two perspectives. First, as an example of “Institution building” in the European Union: developments that lasted two years...

Since its establishment in 1998, the European Central Bank (ECB) has come of age. During this period, its legal framework has been put to the test sufficiently to allow for a proper assessment of the working of this system in practice. This article focuses on the relationship between the ECB and...

Drawing on the 2016 update of the IMF's Central Bank Legislation Database, this paper examines differences in central bank legal frameworks before and after the Global Financial Crisis. Examples from select countries show that many central bank laws have undergone changes in objectives,...

The U.K.'s decision to leave the EU and the voting in of the protectionist Donald Trump to the US presidency has drawn both the UK and the USA into the Nash Trap.U.S. mathematician John Nash (the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind') postulated that Adam Smith's declaration that ‘In competition,...

This report aims to analyse the different dimensions and levels of EU-US relations, to survey the instruments the EU uses in this relation and to provide some recommendations for future EU actions. It provides an overview of the main similarities and differences between the EU and the US...