IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/22050_18.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Sustainability and securities market regulation

In: Comparative Financial Regulation

Author

Listed:
  • Youcef Rahmani

Abstract

This chapter evaluates the extension of mandatory sustainability disclosure within securities law, comparing frameworks in the US, UK, and EU. It critically examines whether such disclosures align with traditional objectives of protecting investors and ensuring market efficiency, or if they represent a somewhat novel paradigm of promoting corporate accountability. A cross-jurisdictional analysis reveals divergent approaches: the investor-focused US model, the UK’s market-centric yet society-conscious framework, and the EU’s comprehensive mandates aimed at societal impact transparency. The chapter discusses the potential for mandated disclosures to change company cost structures through stakeholder engagement, encouraging firms to internalise sustainability-related externalities. It also highlights some of the limits of integrating stakeholder-centric disclosures within a securities law framework.

Suggested Citation

  • Youcef Rahmani, 2025. "Sustainability and securities market regulation," Chapters, in: Alessio M. Pacces & Edoardo D. Martino & Hossein Nabilou (ed.), Comparative Financial Regulation, chapter 18, pages 287-301, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:22050_18
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035306473.00029
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:22050_18. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.