European regulations

Regulations, Market Power and Bank Efficiency in European Countries

This paper investigates whether different types of regulation may have a direct or indirect (through market power) impact on bank’s efficiency. We use a set of data containing European banks to consider the impact of regulations related to capital requirements, official supervisory power, restrictions on bank activities, and private monitoring on bank efficiency. Our results suggest that offici...

Empirical Evidence on the Impact of European Insider Trading Regulations

Between 1988 and 1994 ten European countries introduced or modified their regulations on insider trading. We evaluate in this article the impact of such regulatory changes on the risk, return, and some other characteristics of these ten markets. After extensive testing, we find that the evidence suggests that these regulations have had little (if any) impact on the market characteristics we exa...

Regulations of the European Union for mycotoxins in foods.

Mycotoxins are fungal metabolites that are present in a large part of the world food supply and bear potential threat to food safety. The European Union has been working for several years now on the harmonization of some mycotoxin standards for foods based on toxicological evaluation by its Scientific Committee on Food (SCF). These standards will follow the ALARA (as low as reasonably achievabl...

Assessment of Emission and Ash Management Regulations The European Perspective

Safety Regulations Safety Regulations Environments for Safety Regulations

Environments for Safety Regulations A common factor in whether regulation is used is the seriousness of the outcome being addressed in terms of human health. For this reason regulation is more common in transportation and the workplace, where the potential for fatal injury is perceived to be relatively great, and less common in the home and in sports environments, where the potential for fatal ...