Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector

Research Handbooks in Financial Law series

Edited by François-Charles Laprévote, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton, Brussels, Belgium, Joanna Gray, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham and Francesco de Cecco, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University, UK

The Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector brings together experts in state aid and in financial regulation, drawn from legal academia, legal practice, economics, and from the EU and EEA institutions to shed light on this relationship. The editors and expert contributors do this by elucidating key concepts that underpin the application of state aid law to banks, and by considering specific aspects of the interface between state aid and financial regulation. The Research Handbook's analysis is complemented by a number of key country-based case studies, and by a concluding section which takes stock of the Banking Union’s package of legislative/regulatory reforms and reflects on the possible future role of state aid in this sector.

‘For all these reasons, this monograph is definitively recommended to practitioners and academics interested in the State aid field, but also for policy analysts, political scientists and generally for students of EU law. They will benefit from an overarching work that provides not only a detailed account of the law and case law concerning the application of the State aid discipline to the financial sector, but also a rich understanding of the principles that underpin the new regulatory framework for bank resolution in the EU, and valuable hints into its likely coexistence with the State aid framework. The editors and authors of this work should thus be highly commended.’
– Juan Jorge Piernas López Murcia, Common Market Law Review

‘The Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector provides a wonderful and extensive insight into the state aid cases in the banking sector during the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). It brings together specialists from different angles as a result of which the book combines both the financial regulatory and state aid law angle. . .’
Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation