This paper explores the effects of competition on risk-taking behavior and firm performance within the financial … industry. Exploiting this regulatory shock, we trace non-trivial linkages among industry competition, risk taking, and … performance. Greater competition followed the regulatory liberalization, leading to a significant increase in risk-taking behavior …

Whereas the EU's internal market rules govern market access and public intervention, its competition rules are … concerned with the market conduct of private parties. When do the competition rules apply to healthcare? In principle the scope … for application of the competition rules to the healthcare sector is largely defined by the Member States themselves. This …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and regulatory reforms may have played in the performance of … regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to trade amongst the lowest in the OECD. Nevertheless, there is scope for … improvement and the recent overhaul of competition legislation should help to further promote competition. Much progress has been …

This document (of 351 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on regulation and competition issues … member countries describing in detail the regulatory regime for broadcasting and some of the competition policy issues which … broadcasting, approaches to regulation of broadcasting and highlighting the features of the industry which give rise to competition …