The General Court recently annulled the Commission's 2016 H3G UK/Telefónica UK prohibition decision. Commission's failure to meet the Court's newly-found higher threshold demonstrating that the merger would lead to 'significant impediment to effective competition' (SIEC), and that H3G UK was an...

Regulation is indispensable for the functioning of financial markets. After a decade of deregulation, financial regulation has come back into the focus of political discussion. This work reviews the effectiveness of existing and need for new regulation in two exemplary empirical studies. The...