Promoting competition in financial markets


14 December 2015

In December 2015, senior thinkers, researchers and policy makers gathered at the FCA to discuss the promotion of competition in financial services.

During the day, delegates focussed on the research being done on Behavioural Industrial Organisation (BIO). Essentially a marriage of competition and behavioural economics, BIO offers policy makers a fresh perspective on which to base competition interventions. In this video, economists Peter Andrews, Amelia Fletcher, Michael D Grubb, Charlotte Duke and David Laibson discuss how the two disciplines can be folded together to provide a richer way of modelling and regulating financial markets, as well as promoting more effective competition.

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FCA symposium Competition analysis with realistic behaviour [1]
Read our summary of the insights, research and opinions of the main speakers at the FCA symposium on Behavioural Industrial Organisation, held in December 2015.
Download resource pdf 67 KB Competition analysis with realistic behaviour [1]

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  • [1] https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/corporate/bio-event-summary.pdf
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