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Evidence of Regulatory Arbitrage in Cross-Border Mergers of Banks in the EU
Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2009
banks in individual EU countries help to explain the nature of cross-border merger activity. If they wish to protect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463202
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Monopoly-Creating Bank Consolidation? The Merger of Fleet and BankBoston
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2005
The merger of Fleet and BankBoston in September 1999 resulted in a regional New England lending market in which only … one large, universal bank remained. We explore the extent to which that merger resulted in monopoly rents for the combined … merger, Fleet and BankBoston charged unusually low loan interest rates, reflecting their ability to realize economies of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467332
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European Pharmaceutical Price Regulation, Firm Profitability, and R&D Spending
Golec, Joseph H. - 2006
EU countries closely regulate pharmaceutical prices whereas the U.S. does not. This paper shows how price constraints affect the profitability, stock returns, and R&D spending of EU and U.S. firms. Compared to EU firms, U.S. firms are more profitable, earn higher stock returns, and spend more on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465985
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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation
Aghion, Philippe - 2013
Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing product market competition interact with the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459807
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Economic Research on Privacy Regulation : Lessons from the GDPR and Beyond
Johnson, Garrett - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper reviews the economic literature on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I … highlight key challenges for studying the regulation including the difficulty of finding a suitable control group, variable firm … compliance and regulatory enforcement, as well as the regulation's impact on data observability. The economic literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477197
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Mergers, Deregulation and Cost Savings in the U.S. Rail Industry
Berndt, Ernst R. - 1991
undisputed. Deregulation has proceeded in three ways: (i) eased rate setting restrictions; (ii) simplified merger applications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475256
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The Euro and Structural Reforms
Alesina, Alberto - 2008
This paper investigates whether or not the adoption of the Euro has facilitated the introduction of structural reforms, defined as deregulation in the product markets and liberalization and deregulation in the labor markets. After reviewing the theoretical arguments that may link the adoption of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464168
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The Economic Future of Europe
Blanchard, Olivier - 2004
After three years of near stagnation, the mood in Europe is definitely gloomy. Many doubt that the European model has a future. In this paper, I argue that things are not so bad, and there is room for optimism. Over the last thirty years, productivity growth has been much higher in Europe than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468364
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Competitive Liberalization and a US-SACU FTA
Whalley, John - 2003
This paper evaluates a possible US-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) free trade agreement as part of a US approach to new preferential trade agreements characterized by the term competitive liberalization.' This is the idea that competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468526
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How Offshore Financial Competition Disciplines Exit Resistence by Incentive-Conflicted Bank Regulators
Kane, Edward J. - 1999
This paper studies the impact of technological change and regulatory competition on governmental efforts to generate rents for banks in two stylized regulatory environments. In the first environment, incentive-conflicted regulators attempt to create rents by restricting the size and scope of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471631