Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Securing a Safer Financial System for Europe -- PART I: FROM INTEGRATION TO CRISIS MANAGEMENT -- 2 Institutional Setup for the Single Market and Economic and Monetary Union -- 3 European Union Financial Integration before the Crisis -- 4 Financial, Sovereign, and Macro Risk in the European Union: Contingent Claims Approach -- 5 Crisis Management -- 6 Risks and Vulnerabilities -- 7 Progress with Bank Resolution and Restructuring in the European Union -- 8 Fragmentation of the Financial System -- PART II: UNDERPINNING FINANCIAL STABILITY IN THE ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION AND THE EUROPEAN UNION -- 9 Banking Union and Single Market: Consistent Setup and Risk Mitigation -- 10 Legal Underpinnings of an EU Banking Union -- 11 The Single Supervisory Mechanism -- 12 The Single Resolution Mechanism -- 13 Bank Recapitalization -- 14 Deposit Insurance in the European Union -- 15 Governance and Transparency of EU-Wide Institutions -- 16 European Union Banking Regulatory Framework and Authorities: An Overview -- 17 Stress Testing European Banks -- 18 An Assessment of Markets and Credit Rating Agency Regulation -- 19 European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority -- 20 Macroprudential Oversight and the Role of the European Systemic Risk Board -- 21 Addressing Cross-Border Aspects of Securities Clearing and Settlement Systems in the European Union -- 22 Mortgage Markets and Foreclosure Processes in Europe and the United States -- 23 Resolving Systemically Important Financial Institutions: Mandatory Recapitalization of Financial Institutions Using "Bail-Ins" -- PART III: BEYOND THE CRISIS -- 24 Structural Measures for the New European Architecture -- 25 Some Wider Challenges -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R.

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