This paper intends to approach the financial market regulation and its prospects of evolution. It will first identify the meaning of financial regulation from a global approach. Then, it will discuss the cornerstones of regulation and its main characteristics, including regulatory organizations....

Using highly disaggregated US import data from 157 countries between 1996 and 2009, we first provide evidence that banking crises negatively affect the survival of trade relations. On average, the occurrence of a banking crisis decreases the rate of survival of trade relations by 13 percent....

We examine the impact of banking crises on the duration of trade relations. We also investigate the effect of product-level characteristics, such as the size of exports and exporting experience, and of sector-level financial dependence variables, on the time to recover after a banking crisis....

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) presents an historic opportunity for the European Union and the United States to remove regulatory divergence – today's most prominent obstacle to trade exchanges –, thereby increasing economic growth for the citizens of both...

Since the early 2000s, the United States and European Union have discussed the development of bilateral and regional trade agreements. The TTIP – Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership was announced in February 2013 and is currently under negotiation. The initiative aims at...

The understanding of two different approaches to the interpretation of precautionary principle is crucial for the negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to avoid possible trade disputes between the European Union and the United States in the future. In the past,...