Speculator of Financial Markets

Daniele D’Alvia is a Lecturer in Banking and Finance Law at Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS). He is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London, and Associate Researcher at the European Banking Institute in Frankfurt.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The Speculator, and Financial Innovations: an Old Portrait.- Chapter 3 The Speculator, and Financial Innovations: a New Portrait.- Chapter 4 Uncertainty: the Necessary Unknowable Road to Speculation.- Chapter 5 Economic Bubbles, Schemes, and Market Failures.- Chapter 6 Short Selling: the Bears of the Market.- Chapter 7  Conclusions.