Tag: Financial Markets
French Watchdog Says Suez Bid To Fight Veolia Offer Breaches Rules
French financial markets watchdog AMF stated on Friday, April 2, that water and waste company Suez’s attempts to fight Veolia’s offer breach takeover rules,...
Manipulation of Product Ratings: Credit-Rating Agencies, Google, and Antitrust
Mark Patterson, Apr 17, 2012
The important competitive role played by information providers like credit-rating agencies is not matched by a well-developed competition analysis for...
Credit Rating Agencies and Competition Law
Norman Neyrinck, Nicolas Petit, Apr 17, 2012
Editor's Note: This paper was originally published in the August 2011 issue of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle; however,...
Recent EU Antitrust Investigations into Financial Services” What Is the Scope...
Katarzyna Czapracka, Mark Powell, Jul 28, 2011
Like their U.S. counterparts, the EU antitrust enforcers have decided to probe practices that attracted criticism in the...
Competition Policy, Bailouts, and the Economic Crisis
Bruce Lyons, Nov 01, 2009
The aims of this paper are twofold. First, I explain the economics of bank bailouts as distinct from bailouts for...
Preserving Competition After the Banking Meltdown
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Albert A. Foer, Dec 15, 2008
The Great Banking Meltdown of 2008, which may...
Competition in EU Trading and Post-Trading Service Markets
Bernhard Friess, Sean Greenaway, Apr 01, 2006
The structure of trading service markets is a fundamental determinant of the cost of capital for business. Competition...
