8 March 2010: HiiL Dinner Debate on Financial Market Regulation

The Challenge of Assessing the Likely Success of Financial Market Regulation

8 March 2010 - The Hague

Provoked by the recent financial turmoil and the resulting urge for better regulation, HiiL has embarked, in partnership with Duisenberg School of Finance, on an ambitious research project with the provisional title “Joint Research Project on Assessing Regulation and Supervision of Financial Markets and Institutions in a Multi-Level Environment”.

The central question the research project wishes to answer, is how to determine what mix of domestic, regional and international, private and public, and hard and soft law would work best for the effective governance of global(ised) financial markets and institutions.

To that end, we envisage the development of an integrated assessment instrument that would enable policymakers, private regulators and other stakeholders to comprehensively assess the likely success of contemplated financial regulation; such an instrument should be of help to rationally decide on the best form and level of regulation regarding different forms of behaviour in the financial sector.

Keynote speaker:

Arthur Docters van Leeuwen
Commissioner on behalf of the Dutch Government Aegon, Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands School of Public Administration, former Chairman of the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets

Chairs:

David Raič, Deputy Director and Head of Research Programming of HiiL
Dirk Schoenmaker, Dean Duisenberg School of Finance

More information

Katarzyna Kryczka
Research and Programme Officer
k.kryczka@hiil.org
+31 70 349 4406