37450 - Listed Companies Law

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Financial Markets and Institutions (cod. 0901)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Law and Economics (cod. 0899)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will have acquired a working knowledge and the analitical tools needed to understand capital market regulation both at the European and National levels. The course will review the historical evolution of European and National capital market regulation so that the students will know in detail the traditional and the new approches used by Law and Economis and Law and Finance scholarship in the field of capital market regulation, initial public offering, takeover, insider trading and market abuse, financial supervision. The theorical knowledge will be complemented with the analysis of case law in order to provide a comprehensive view on the field.

Course contents

1. Discipline of private finance

2. Constitutional and European significance of investor protection

3. Historical evolution of European and National Capital Market Regulation

4. Capital Market Regulation

5. Take over

6. Initial Public Offering

7. Insider Trading and Market Abuse

8. Organization of markets

9. Financial Supervision

Readings/Bibliography

Costi, Il mercato mobiliare, Torino, Giappichelli, last edition (chapters: 1,2, 3, 6, 7, 8); 

Lamandini, Ramos, European Financial Law, forthcoming.

Assessment methods

oral exam

Office hours

See the website of Marco Lamandini