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Zusatztext Professor Usher's analysis is always accessible and often provocative. His lucid and critical examination ... makes this work an important and timely one. Klappentext This book relates the development of economic and monetary union in the EC to the development of a single market for financial servies. This new edition fully reflects the institutional and legal consequences of the achievement of economic and monetary union in 1999, while taking account of the continuing flow of Community legislation and case law in the area of financial servieces. Zusammenfassung This book relates the development of economic and monetary union in the EC to the development of the single market for financial services. The new edition fully reflects the institutional and legal consequences of the achievement of economic and monetary union in 1999, while taking account also of the continuing flow of Community legislation and case-law in the area of financial services. The transparency resulting from monetary union has shown problems of taxation to be a barrier to market integration, and this is reflected in a new Chapter. On the other hand, this an area in which variable geometry has become a legal reality, and this also is reflected in a new Chapter of the book. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of statutes Table of cases Introduction Money in the context of the EC Treaty Capital Movements Monetary movements, taxation and the Treaty freedoms The application of EC competition rules to financial services Cross-border financial services: the Treaty rules Banking, investment and loans: the Community legislation From units of account to the Euro The development of monetary union The ins and the outs Monetary institutions External monetary relations and influences
