Financial Market Infrastructure and Economic Integration: A WTO, FTAs, and Competition Law Analysis (Studies in International Trade and Investment Law) - Softcover

George A Papaconstantinou

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150996679X ISBN 13: 9781509966790

Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK), 2025

Synopsis

This book is the first comprehensive study of the interplay between the cutting-edge regulation of financial infrastructure and international economic integration. It tackles a series of important questions: How does the regulation of central counterparties interact with international economic law? Is the WTO able to deal with the regulatory diversity of each country’s financial rulebook? Do FTAs foster deeper integration of financial infrastructure services? Can competition law effectively tackle monopolisation and anti-competitive conduct in financial infrastructure?

The book discusses how the liberalisation of financial market infrastructure is achieved within the most prominent international economic integration settings: the WTO, Economic Integration Agreements, and EU competition law. It explores whether a more harmonious relationship between financial regulation and economic integration is feasible, and how it can be achieved. The book demonstrates the existence of both structural barriers to trade and trade-facilitating tools that can impede and foster the further integration of financial market infrastructure. Measuring the depth of liberalisation of financial market infrastructure services in more than 120 FTAs, as well as surveying recent case law of the WTO, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the practice of the European Commission, the book shows how the economic integration of financial market infrastructure occurs.

An essential read for those seeking to understand how the cutting-edge regulation of financial market infrastructure and transnational systems of economic integration interact with one another.

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About the Author

George A Papaconstantinou is a Legal Officer at the European Commission. He holds a PhD in law from the European University Institute (EUI). During his PhD studies, he conducted research at Columbia Law School, where he was a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar.

Before joining the European Commission, George was an associate attorney with an international law firm in Brussels, with expertise on international trade and competition law. He has taught and published broadly on EU law, WTO law, financial regulation, and competition law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK)
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 150996679X
• ISBN 13: 9781509966790
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320