to what is expected, both graphical analyses and OLS regressions for a small sample of electricity and gas regulators …

The paper focuses on the process of liberalization of the electricity market and its functioning in the EU. The … European electricity market is in the middle of its transformation from a monopolistic state-owned production and distribution … to privatized markets with various competing firms. The basic objective of liberalization of the electricity market has …

Financial regulation should be countercyclical, strengthening during speculative booms to contain excessive leverage … and loosening following crises so as to not limit credit extension in hard times. And yet, financial regulation in fact … choice perspective on financial regulation, i.e. rational choice ideas drawn from economics and applied to politics, but with …

will offer a guide to the antitrust community that will cover the U.S. financial sector, financial regulation, and the … debacle and subsequent financial crisis. The tensions that can arise between financial regulation and antitrust will be … market power. Although much progress has been made in removing anticompetitive elements from financial regulation over the …

Reforming regulation of the financial sector is currently among the most immediate concerns of domestic and … reform. It argues that the process of reforming financial regulation should begin with a comprehensive, granular study of …-containment with regulatory reform and may end up designing a retrospective framework for financial regulation. A comprehensive post …

The benefits of top down financial reporting regulation over the past eight decades are less obvious than its failures …

The paper analyses the divergent outcomes of post-crisis derivative regulation in Europe. In the aftermath of the … regulations however seem to have greater impacts on the functioning of financial markets. The regulation of commodity derivatives … capture. This paper argues that meaningful regulatory change in commodity derivative regulation was primarily achieved through …