Presentation of the Chair

The Rules and Markets Chair was established to promote the development of research on financial regulation. Financial regulation which questions the effectiveness of public or para public (independent administrative authorities) in the field of banking and financial markets and more generally, the analysis of new regulations put in place in response to the liberalization process and financial crisis. The state of the financial intermediaries’ economics knowledge base (type, features, procyclicality) is then highlighted.

Some of the work carried out by the Chair will assess the impact of new regulations on financial intermediaries in terms of a competition distortion, actors’ strategies, macroeconomic developments (concentration, pro-cyclicality), and supervision problems.

These questions are intended to measure the effectiveness of regulation of financial markets tend toward a reflection on how to control and regulate risky financial instruments.

The Rules and Markets Chair aims to launch simultaneously:

• Applied research,
• The practical implementation of the research and the results of the studies in terms of tools.

The Chair coordinates:

• The incorporation of professionals into training courses related to technical financial regulations
• The development of research theses on Industrial Convention Research Training (CIFRE: theses produced by companies)
• The creation of an annual revue called "Rules and Markets" published by the Presses Universitaires d'Angers.

The Rules and Market Chair is attached to the GRANEM (Research Group Angevin Economics and Management). GRANEM responds to the status of UMR-MA (UMR).

The Chair's partners