PES documents
- Letters to Commission President José Manuel Barroso, by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, PES President, Martin Schulz, President of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament and Pervenche Berès, Chairwoman of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee in the European Parliament:
1. Even McCreevy has to respect the European Parliament! , 16 December 2008
- President Barroso's answer , 18 December 2008
2. Answer to the letter of President Barroso , 13 January 2009
3. No to new loopholes in EU regulation on hedge and private equity funds! , 20 April 2009
- PES Leaders declaration "Taking Europe out of financial and economic crisis: An Urgent European Plan of Action" , 5 November 2008
- Resolution adopted by the PES Presidency , defending a new progressive roadmap for jobs and real value to tackle the crisis, Brussels, 16 October 2008
- PES President report to the European Parliament with recommendations to the Commission on Hedge and private equity funds, 11 September 2008
- Letter to the rotating Presidency of the EU, 19 May 2008:
- Leaflet on Hedge and private equity funds , December 2007
- Resolution on financial markets
, PES Council Sofia, 22-23 November 2007 - Hedge and Private Equity Funds - a critical analysis , by PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and MEP Ieke van den Burg (Socialist Group in the European Parliament), April 2007
Other documents
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Report of the high-level working group „More Transparency and Stability in Financial Markets“, under the chairmanship of Peer Steinbrück, Vice Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and Federal Minister of Finance(German only)
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Government Failure vs. Market Failure: Principles of Regulation , Joseph E. Stiglitz, 11 February 2008
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Economic Causes of the Subprime Crisis , Patrick Bolton, 6 February 2008
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Understanding The Securitization Of Subprime Mortgage Credit , Adam Ashcraft and Til Schuermann, 31 January 2008
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America's Houses of Cards , Joseph E. Stiglitz, 20 January 2008
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Minsky's Cushions of Safety: Systemic Risk and Crisis in the US Subprime Mortgage Market , Jan Kregel, 20 January 2008
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New Investors in Developing Countries: Opportunities, Risks and Policy Responses, the Case of Hedge Funds , Stephany Griffith-Jones with Pietro Calice and Carmen Seekatz, 20 January 2008
