Over the past two decades, the financial services industry has experienced a significant increase in competition and internal rivalry. Driven by deregulation and advances in information technologies, many historical institutional distinctions among financial intermediaries have disappeared or...

[...]In dem Diskussionspapier geht es um die Frage, ob die Empfehlung den nationalen Regulierungsbehörden genügend Freiraum einräumt, nationale Besonderheiten in ihren Marktanalysen zu berücksichtigen. Im Rahmen dieses Diskussionsbeitrages wird zu-nächst kurz die Relevante-Markt-Empfehlung...

This paper deals with competition and regulation in the telecommunications sector.

The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization—""neoliberalism""—took root in the United States under Ronald Reagan and in Britain under Margaret Thatcher. But why did neoliberal policies gain such...