The main goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of key regulatory changes in the European merger control and to evaluate their real impact on the efficiency of merger regulation. Our main contribution is an empirical analysis of a unique representative sample of 161 horizontal mergers...

The article deals with borrower-based instruments within macroprudential policy as measures aimed at reducing systemic risk regarding household debt. Our contribution is three-fold; Firstly, we show that more than 50% of countries in the European Economic Area have incorporated the borrower-based...

Our aim is to empirically assess differences in behaviour and performance of European cooperative and commercial banks in a low interest rate environment. We employ dynamic panel data methods to assess the relative performance of both ownership structures based on a data set of nearly 1,000...