"Kulturelle Vielfalt und pulsierende Kreativität sind Europas Markenzeichen. Der europäische audiovisuelle Sektor, dessen Wert auf rund €96 Milliarden geschätzt wird und der über 1.100 Filmproduktionen pro Jahr erzeugt, verkörpert wahrscheinlich am besten diese Werte. Allerdings wird nur...

"The purpose of this six-month study was to provide the Commission with a description of the different provisions, which exist within the aforementioned States, to implement Chapter III of the TWF Directive. This description covers both the implementation of these provisions, and also other...

"European Publishing Monitor is a 12 month project analysing the publishing industries in selected European countries ... The project will help the European Commission understand the challenges faced by the publishing industry in selected countries. ..."

Exchanges and other trading platforms are often vertically integrated to carry out trading, clearing and settlement as one operation. We show that such vertical silos can prevent efficiency gains from horizontal consolidation of trading and settlement platforms to be realized. Independent of the...

In recent years, demutualized stock exchanges have been increasingly engaging in M&A and alliance activities. To examine the effect of these growth strategies on exchange shareholders’ value creation, we focus on 14 public stock exchanges and investigate their short-run share price responses...