This paper assesses the integration strategy of the European Union in regulated network markets. The paper argues that in these markets integration should not be an end in itself. In regulated markets the conventional gains from trade or freedom of establishment may be outweighed by significant...

Focusing on the consumer's role in EU decision-making illuminates the tension between a model of supranational rule-making as an expertised, technocratic, administrative domain, and a model of regional integration as an extension of domestic democratic politics. The European project for internal...

Although the United States and the European Union were both seriously impacted by the financial crisis of 2007, the resulting policy debates and regulatory responses have differed considerably on the two sides of the Atlantic. In this paper the authors examine the debates on the problem posed by...