Avgouleas, E. and Cullen, J. (2014) Market Discipline and EU Corporate Governance Reform in the Banking Sector: Merits, Fallacies, and Cognitive Boundaries. Journal of Law and Society, 41 (1). 28 - 50. ISSN 0263-323X
Abstract
Much contemporary analysis has concluded that the recent financial crisis and bank failures were, inter alia, the result of a breakdown in corporate governance regimes and market discipline. New EU regulations strongly advocate market-based remedies such as tighter investor monitoring and greater control over executives' remuneration, in order to safeguard financial stability. We argue that this approach largely ignores three very important aspects of modern financial markets that cannot be constrained through market discipline: (a) socio-psychological phenomena; (b) the epistemological properties of financial market innovation; and (c) the inherent inability of market participants to predict uncertain risk correlations. Therefore, this article argues that excessive EU focus on corporate governance reforms, as a means to improve financial stability, detracts attention from much more significant concerns, chiefly the issue of optimal bank structure.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 The Author. Journal of Law and Society © 2014 Cardiff University Law School. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Law (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2015 16:04 |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2018 13:02 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2014.00655.x |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1467-6478.2014.00655.x |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:89100 |