In this paper we propose a novel approach in analysing the impact of changes in sovereign credit ratings on stock markets. We study the evolution of a segmented form of the stock market index for several crisis-hit countries, including both European and Asian markets. Such evolution is modelled...

The debate on common shareholding - and its potential antitrust effects - is currently on theagenda of all major institutions worldwide. All discussions point to the need for improved empiricalquantification in order to assess potential impacts. This work presents a unifying statistical...

The spread of minority equity interest by large investors within productive sectors has garnered theattention of major institutions worldwide. This work draws a picture of such “common ownership”in the European energy industry in 2007-2018, by means of novel indicators covering both the...

The food sector has been the object of much competition concern in the past decade, having seen many European Commission initiatives investigating the food supply chain. This study examines the ownership structure of beverages manufacturers active in the EU28 in 2007-2019. Several large US-based...