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30 Sep 2021
3 min to read

The Role of Disclosure in Green Finance

Tobias H. Tröger | Sebastian Steuer

Anthropogenic climate change is a reality that will impact incrementally on all areas of human life, including economic activity and the social welfare it creates. Policy makers around the globe have...

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  • Financial Regulation
15 Nov 2019
5 min to read

Regulating tail risks: When and how prudential regulation should apply to shadow banking

Matthias Thiemann | Tobias H. Tröger

Shadow banking – now labeled as non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI) by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) – maneuvers outside of the realm of prudential banking regulation. NBFI entities often...
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  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
03 Oct 2019
4 min to read

The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions

Luca Enriques, Faculty of Law | Tobias H. Tröger

The quality of corporate governance, ie the effectiveness of institutions that contain agency costs, is a key component of asset allocation. In countries characterized by concentrated ownership,...

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  • Financial Regulation
01 Oct 2018

Oops! … We do it again. Attack on the banking union in the German constitutional court and why even ardent Europeans may learn a (limited) lesson from it

Tobias H. Tröger

Conventional wisdom suggests that the U.S. is the ‘litigation nation’. However, when it comes to disputes concerning euro area integration, Germans also seem to be very gung ho to slug it out in the...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Financial Regulation
01 May 2018

Germany's Reluctance to Regulate Related Party Transactions

Tobias H. Tröger

In a recent European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Working Paper I take an industrial organization perspective to explain the regulation of related party transactions in German corporate law...

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  • Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
06 Nov 2017

Remarks on the German Regulation of Crowdfunding

Tobias H. Tröger

Crowdfunding is a buzzword that identifies a sub-set in the new forms of finance facilitated by advances in information technology usually categorized as fintech. In contrast to financial innovation...

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  • Financial Regulation
21 Sep 2017

The European Bail-in Tool is too Complex and MREL Won’t Remedy its Shortcomings

Tobias H. Tröger

I recently published two related working papers that scrutinize the effectiveness of the bail-in tool in the European bank resolution framework. I find that the regime, even after the prospected...

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  • Financial Regulation
16 Jun 2017

How Not To Do Banking Law in the 21st Century - The Judgement of the European General Court (EGC) in the Case T-122/15 – Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg ‒ Förderbank v European Central Bank (ECB)

Tobias H. Tröger

I. Background The Judgement of the EGC in the Case T-122/15 – Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg ‒ Förderbank v European Central Bank (ECB) is the first statement of the European judiciary on the...
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  • Brexit
  • Financial Regulation
02 Aug 2016

(Don’t) Blame It All on Brexit…

Martin R. Götz | Tobias H. Tröger

A key lesson for policymakers after the financial crisis was to reduce the likelihood of bank bailouts using taxpayers’ funds. Bailing out banks not only stresses public finances – it also undermines...

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