Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,0, University of Frankfurt (Main), course: Financial Regulation, 56 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the terms entry regulation, financial market competition and alsoindicates connections to potential financial crises. Authors in research have beenattempting for years to build up a remedy for an optimal set-up.1So, this is the reason I observe a seemingly never-ending discussion between twounofficial parties: Neither the proponents of the concentration-stability view, neitherthose of the concentration-fragility view will retreat from how to install propercompetition in order to ensure stability.This paper also aims to understand the terms of both parties; their arguments andwhether either monopolistic structures or competition are desirable in the financialindustry.Therefore, I lay the theoretical foundation. I demonstrate with a model of the authorsBoyd & De Nicol? that even economies with monopolistic structure are exposed torisk-taking activities - and not only banks in competitive industries. In chapter 3, I turnto the topic "Entry Regulation". I unveil different yardsticks of entry regulation, revealsome advantages and draw up my own index. I show that mainly countries thatsuffered devastating crises in recent times have stringent entry regulation. This can beshown by regarding their high capital requirements or their b...