This year’s online conference is focusing on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU legislative proposal to regulate digital markets in order to prevent abuses of market power. This regulatory tool contains behavioral obligations for large online platforms (‘gatekeepers’) aimed at reducing entry barriers and ensuring fairness in the relationship between digital platforms and their different user...
After failing to fully recover from the last financial crisis, the pandemic poses major new challenges for banks. However, this time, banks are not the problem, but part of the solution. By providing credit to the economy, banks play a crucial role in fighting the pandemic by ensuring the transmission of fiscal and monetary stimulus to the economy. Nevertheless, banks are not among the winners of...
Christian von Hirschhausen und Ben Wealer sprechen über die Häufigkeit von Stör- und Unfällen und über die Unstetigkeit von Atomkraftwerken. Bei Katastrophen wie in Fukushima oder Tschernobyl hafte am Ende immer die Gesellschaft. Die Technologie sei ohne Lerneffekt geblieben und werde immer teurer.