Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector

Edited by François-Charles Laprévote, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton, Brussels, Belgium, Joanna Gray, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham and Francesco de Cecco, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, UK

Contents:

Foreword
François-Charles Laprévote, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton (CGSH)

Part I
1. The special nature of banks and its challenges for competition policy
Ioannis Kokkoris

2. Competition, stability and moral hazard: the tension between financial regulation and State aid control
Joanna Gray and Francesco de Cecco

3. State aid and the financial sector: the evolution of the legal framework of State aid law
Violeta Iftinchi

PART II
4. State aid to banking: application of the market economy investor principle
Phedon Nicolaides

5. The States’ toolkit for rescuing banks in difficulty
François-Charles Laprévote and Florine Coupé

6. Compensatory measures in the banking sector
Sahar Shamsi, Pantelis Solomon and Nicole Robins

7. Preserving cross-border banking in the face of the crisis: State aid policy under the financial trilemma
François-Charles Laprévote and Sven Frisch

PART III
8. Crisis aid to banks in Germany
Sven Frisch

9. The United Kingdom
Conor Quigley

10. Ireland
Vincent J.G. Power

11. State aid to banks in France
Claire Froitzheim

12. State aid to banks in Belgium
Jean-Sébastien Duprey

13. State intervention in the banking sector of The Netherlands
Bart P.M. Joosen

14. Southern Program Countries – Cyprus, Portugal, Spain
Carlos Botelho Moniz, Pedro de Gouveia e Melo and Luís do Nascimento Ferreira

15. Iceland
Dora Sif Tynes

Part IV
16. The new regulatory framework for bank resolution
Ginevra Bruzzone, Miriam Cassella and Stefano Micossi

17. Hand in hand or parallel paths? Reflections on the future coexistence of State aid control and bank resolution in the EU
François-Charles Laprévote and Amélie Champsaur

Index