Steinberg, Fr.,  Vermeiren Matt., (2015), “Germany’s Institutional Power and the EMU Regime after the Crisis: Towards a Germanized Euro Area?”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 2015, pp.1-20. In this article we examine the constraints on Germany’s influence over reforms of the Economic and Monetary Union’s (EMU) macroeconomic governance regime. Drawing on the insights of historical institutionalism, we show that the German government’s control over the process is constrained by the …Read More

Herweg, F. & Müller, D. (2015) “Price discrimination by big manufacturers: Supporting arguments for its prohibition by European competition law“, VoxEU Organisation, 07 April.   Manufacturers discriminating among retailers is an important issue in competition policy. Specifically, the EU allows quantity discounts but forbids discriminatory discounts – a policy that does not jive with standard economic analysis which suggests that banning price discrimination improves allocative efficiency and typically also raises …Read More

Högenauer, A. L. & Neuhold, C. (2015) “Parliamentary administrations are an important pillar in the parliamentary scrutiny of EU affairs“, LSE EUROPP, 03 April.   National parliaments were given new powers to scrutinise EU legislation in the Treaty of Lisbon. As Anna-Lena Högenauer and Christine Neuhold write, the intention was to bring EU issues closer to European citizens, however one largely overlooked feature is the role of parliamentary bureaucracies in …Read More