2016
DOI: 10.1093/jfr/fjw006
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Capital Markets Union: A Vision for the Long Term

Abstract: Capital Markets Union (CMU) is a welcome economic policy initiative. If well designed and implemented, it can improve access to funding, the allocation of capital, prospects for savers, and financial stability in the European Union. But since financial ecosystems only change slowly, CMU cannot be a short-term cyclical instrument to substitute for subdued bank lending. Shifting financial intermediation towards capital markets will require persistent action on multiple fronts. The policy agenda should aim to enh… Show more

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“…The study of Veron and Wolff (2015) stresses the long-term perspective of the CMU, which cannot be a short-term cyclical instrument to replace subdued bank lending since financial ecosystems change slowly. Skabic (2016) puts the perspective of the increased capital mobility during the 1990s and 2000s, where the additional push factor was the EU enlargement to the countries of Central and East Europe.…”
Section: Research Results and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The study of Veron and Wolff (2015) stresses the long-term perspective of the CMU, which cannot be a short-term cyclical instrument to replace subdued bank lending since financial ecosystems change slowly. Skabic (2016) puts the perspective of the increased capital mobility during the 1990s and 2000s, where the additional push factor was the EU enlargement to the countries of Central and East Europe.…”
Section: Research Results and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The latter is criticized by Kenadjian (2015) stating that "junior IFRS" for SMEs would be counter-productive as it would involve the cost of preparing a second set of financial statements, which will be not enough when the company decides to go public on a regular stock exchange, thus requiring a second conversion. Veron and Wolff (2015) stress the need for IFRS application as well as taxation unification importance since the taxation framework is moving investment flows towards one or another instrument.…”
Section: Unified Accounting Standards and Standardisation Of Issuancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Figure 6: Financial portfolio of households in the EU and US, percentage of total financial assets (Veron andWolff, 2015 based on OECD, 2011) will be created to ease access to information for investors on infrastructure projects.…”
Section: The Capital Markets Unionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Economic literature points to the fact that in addition to the short term measures, the CMU's real potential can only be achieved with a long-term structural policy agenda dealing with areas such as more integrated accounting enforcement and supervision of audit firms, better corporate credit information, reliance of financial infrastructure, insolvency law, financial investment taxation, (Veron and Wolff 2015), collection and analysis of capillary data and building a comprehensive realtime European map of risk (Issing and Krahnen, 2009). …”
Section: ) Developing European Private Placements Marketsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Capital Markets Union (CMU) has been described by Mr Juncker as one of three "unions" of the European Union (EU) next to Energy Union and the Digital Single Market [Veron, Wolff 2016]. CMU is currently pursuing as a part of the European Commission's Investment Plan for Europe (EC IPE) that is planned for the period 2015-2017 and focuses on removing obstacles to investment, providing visibility and technical assistance to investment projects and making smarter use of new and existing financial resources.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%