Public-Private Co-Regulation in the making of the capital markets union

This contribution investigates the conditions and dynamics of a public-private regulatory partnership in the making of the Capital Markets Union. According to our argument, structural interdependence and the strategic use of market narratives in a low salient policy domain allowed the EU financial industry to frame their interests as a solution to Europe's missing recovery. Under the pressures of the Eurozone crisis and the EMU constraints, the goals of critical financial industry sectors and EU policy-makers met together, leading to a renewed regulatory cooperation. Such a mechanism is unveiled through a process-tracing case-study analysis on the EU covered bonds framework.