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Author Péréon, Yves-Marie, author.

Title Moralizing the market : how Gaullist France embraced the US model of securities regulation / Yves-Marie Péréon.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. A minister on a mission -- 2. "Thieves!" -- 3. The Paris Bourse in the 1960s : a basket case? -- 4. France looks at America -- 5. Drafting the ordonnance -- 6. Takeoff -- 7. The red flag over the "temple of gold" -- 8. In search of legitimacy -- 9. Mr. Chatenet goes to Washington -- 10. Mission accomplished?
Summary A nation usually overhauls its financial regulations after a stock market crash or the collapse of its banking system. In 1967, France did something rare. Out of pure political expediency, Gaullist leaders and senior civil servants seized the opportunity offered by an insider-trading case and established an independent commission to regulate the securities market: the Commission des Operations de Bourse, or COB. Despite their staunch defense of national sovereignty, these reformers drew their inspiration from an American model, the Securities and Exchange Commission. Highlighting the international sources for national reform, Yves-Marie Pereon's Moralizing the Market explores the dynamics of policy transfer in securities regulation--a subject that has rarely been considered from a historical perspective. That regulation has been used to attract investors and foster market development challenges the view that the French government only attempted to develop the stock market as part of a global wave of deregulation in the 1980s. Indeed, the creation of the COB reveals a great deal about the exercise of power in modern democracies, the interaction between business and government, and the mechanisms of institutional innovation. Moralizing the Market will appeal to professors and students of economic history, international relations, and political science, as well as business and finance historians, policy makers, and professionals.
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Subject Securities -- France.
Securities.
France.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Péréon, Yves-Marie. Moralizing the market. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018 1421424851 9781421424859 (OCoLC)1007065018
ISBN 9781421424866 (electronic book)
142142486X (electronic book)
9781421424859
1421424851