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Refusal to Supply and Margin Squeeze : A Discussion of Why the 'Telefonica Exceptions' are Wrong
Geradin, Damien - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130947
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Merger Control in the Banking Sector During the Financial Crisis
Grave, Carsten - 2010
This paper analyses the merger control instruments available to overcome a crisis of a company and highlights their role in the 2008/09 global financial market crisis. It concludes that the German merger control regime is well equipped to overcome any (further) banking crisis as long as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138743
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Did Credit Rating Agencies Cause the European Sovereign Debt Crisis?
Abrantes-Metz, Rosa M. - 2014
It must not be easy being a rating agency. Where corporate debt is concerned, the major credit rating agencies (“CRAs”) are said to be too slow and lagging the market. When the topic is structured finance, the agencies are said to inflate ratings to attract business. And when the subject is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059833
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Merger Control in Times of Financial Crisis : An Expedient Instrument to Heal the Fledgling Economy or an Object of Abuse?
Tyagi, Kalpana - 2015
In times of crisis, there is reduced demand for consumer durables and the manufacturing industry tends to suffer from excess capacity. Due to liquidity problems, the banking sector too suffers critically. Generally, one observes an accelerated merger control activity across all the sectors, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021566
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Digging Itself Out of the Hole? A Critical Assessment of the European Commission's Attempt to Revitalise State Aid Enforcement after the Crisis
Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2015
This paper aims to assess the likelihood that State aid enforcement can be revitalised in the post-crisis period as a result of the 2012-2014 State aid modernisation process (SAM). The paper takes the view that State aid enforcement was left in a difficult impasse as a result of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023235
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EU Competition Law Responses to the Consequences of the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 in a Merger Control
Lkhamsuren, Otgonbayar - 2021
Merger control during the financial crisis of 2007/2008 is one of the most challenging topics for EU Competition law …. The global crisis tested the EU merger control framework in both procedural and substantial aspects. On the one hand, the … work is an attempt to cover all the aspects of EU merger control, including jurisdiction, the community dimension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240112
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How asset management companies can help tackle the NPL crisis : a state aid perspective within the resolution framework
Grünewald, Seraina Neva; Louisse Read, Marije L. - 2022
The lingering pandemic and associated lockdown measures have undoubtedly an impact on banks’ balance sheets. It is expected that the ratio of banks’ non-performing loans (NPLs) will raise significantly once Member States fully unwind the support measures introduced to contain the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795428
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Competition policy and sector-specific regulation in the financial sector
Hellwig, Martin - 2018
Reforms of financial regulation after the crisis of 2007-2009 raise the question of what is the relation between financial regulators and competition authorities. Should competition authorities play a role in financial regulation? Should they co-operate with financial regulators? Or should they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879119
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Lessons from the Financial Crisis
Stucke, Maurice E. - 2011
What lessons can we learn from the financial crisis concerning the issues of systemic risk, firms too big to fail, and the income inequality in the United States today?In light of the public anger over the financial crisis and bailouts to firms deemed too big to fail, this Essay first addresses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131215
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Should Competition Policy in Banking Be Amended during Crises? Lessons from the EU
Hasan, Iftekhar - 2013
This article investigates the nexus of competition and stability in European banking. It analyzes the European legal framework for competition policy in banking and several cases that pertain to anti-cartel policy, merger policy, and state-aid control. It discusses whether and how competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087237