Handbook of European Financial Markets and Institutions

Edited by Xavier Freixas, Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE, Philipp Hartmann, Head of Financial Research, European Central Bank, and Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School

Xavier Freixas (Ph D. Toulouse 1978) is Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE (Spain) and Research Fellow at CEPR.

Dr. Philipp Hartmann is Head of the Financial Research Division in the Directorate General Research of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt. His previous positions include that of Principal of the Economic and Financial Research Unit at the ECB and Research Fellow for Financial Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Philipp Hartmann is also a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London) and the Vice-President of SUERF, the European Money and Finance Forum.

Colin Mayer is the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies and former Dean of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He is an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and of St Anne's College, Oxford. He is an Ordinary Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and assisted in establishing the prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and ECGI. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, and the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School, Université de Bruxelles. He was a director of Oxera between 1986 and 2010 and was instrumental in building the firm into what is now one of the largest independent economics consultancies in the UK.

Contributors: 
Kpate Adjaoute, HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University
Franklin Allen, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Ronald W. Anderson, London School of Economics
Lieven Baele, Tilburg University
John Berrigan, European Commission
Ulrich Bindseil, European Central Bank
Mike Burkart, Stockholm School of Economics 
Michael K F Chui, Bank for International Settlements
Luis Correia da Silva, Oxera
Jean-Pierre Danthine, University of Lausanne
E Philip Davis, Brunel University
François Degeorge, Swiss Institute, University of Lugano
Hans Degryse, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Tilburg University 
Annalisa Ferrando, European Central Bank 
Maciej Firla-Cuchra, Oxera
Julian Franks, London Business School
Xavier Freixas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Thomas P. Gehrig, Universität Freiburg
Alberto Giovanni, UNIFORTUNE Asset Management
Charles Goodhart, Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics
Philipp Hartmann, European Central Bank
Florian Heider, European Central Bank
Boris Hofmann, Deutsche Bundesbank 
Cornelia Holthausen, European Central Bank
Peter Hordahl, Bank for International Settlements
Tim Jenkinson, Said Business School, Oxford University
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Houston
Elizaveta Krylova, European Central Bank
Marco Lo Duca, European Central Bank
Kenneth McKay, London School of Economics
Angela Maddaloni, European Central Bank
Ernst Maug, Universitat Mannheim
Colin Mayer, Said Business School, Oxford University
Cyril Monnet, European Central Bank
Kjell G. Nyborg, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Steven Ongena, Tilburg University
Marco Pagano, Universita di Napoli Federico II,
Fausto Panunzi, University of Bologna
Elias Papaioannou, European Central Bank
Ray Rees, Universitat Munchen
Ailsa Roell, Columbia University
Daniel Russo, European Central Bank
Miguel Segoviano, International Monetary Fund
Bent Sorensen, University of Houston
Bernhard Speyer, Deutsche Bank
Oren Sussman, Said Business School, Oxford University
Kostas Tsatsaronis, Bank for International Settlements 
Natacha Valla, Banque de France
Ernst-Ludwig Von Thadden, Universitat Mannheim
Andreas Worms, Deutsche Bundesbank