This Research Handbook provides an inter-disciplinary view of State interventions in the banking sector, their control under State aid rules since the financial crisis of 2008 and the progressive emergence of a pan-European regulation of banks in distress.

Contents: Foreword François-Charles Laprévote, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton (CGSH) Part I 1. The special nature of banks and its challenges for competition policy Ioannis Kokkoris 2. Competition, stability and moral hazard: the tension between financial regulation and State aid control Joanna Gray and Francesco de Cecco 3. State aid and the financial sector: the evolution of the legal framework of State aid law Violeta Iftinchi PART II 4. State aid to banking: application of the market economy investor principle Phedon Nicolaides 5. The States’ toolkit for rescuing banks in difficulty François-Charles Laprévote and Florine Coupé 6. Compensatory measures in the banking sector Sahar Shamsi, Pantelis Solomon and Nicole Robins 7. Preserving cross-border banking in the face of the crisis: State aid policy under the financial trilemma François-Charles Laprévote and Sven Frisch PART III 8. Crisis aid to banks in Germany Sven Frisch 9. The United Kingdom Conor Quigley 10. Ireland Vincent J.G. Power 11. State aid to banks in France Claire Froitzheim 12. State aid to banks in Belgium Jean-Sébastien Duprey 13. State intervention in the banking sector of The Netherlands Bart P.M. Joosen 14. Southern Program Countries – Cyprus, Portugal, Spain Carlos Botelho Moniz, Pedro de Gouveia e Melo and Luís do Nascimento Ferreira 15. Iceland Dora Sif Tynes Part IV 16. The new regulatory framework for bank resolution Ginevra Bruzzone, Miriam Cassella and Stefano Micossi 17. Hand in hand or parallel paths? Reflections on the future coexistence of State aid control and bank resolution in the EU François-Charles Laprévote and Amélie Champsaur Index

’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.'