Competition Law And Industrial Policy In The Eu

Author : Wolf Sauter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015040078639

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Competition Law and Industrial Policy in the EU by Wolf Sauter Pdf

This book provides a new analytical framework for legal problems concerning the economic order of the European Union. In order to determine the remaining scope for national economic sovereignty, and the improvement of the economic order of the Community itself, the focus of the book is the contentious relationship between competition and industrial policy under European law. The theoretical perspective used is based on a comparison between the concepts of the Treaty as an economic constitution and as a political constitution. On this basis, the convergence of competition and industrial policy at the Community level is explained as the result of the rationalisation of public policy, and the reduction of the economic independence of the member states. The study concludes that the market orientation of the European Union is not in doubt, but that a clear link remains to be established between the legitimacy of public intervention in the economy and the distribution of power in the Community system.

Author : Sauter Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Competition
ISBN : 1383015651

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Competition Law and Industrial Policy in the EU by Sauter Wolf Pdf

This volume provides a new analytical framework for legal problems concerning the economic order of the European Union and the future of the European social model.

Author : Eleanor M. Fox,Damien Gerard
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 183910466X

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EU Competition Law by Eleanor M. Fox,Damien Gerard Pdf

This innovative textbook, now in its second edition, presents EU competition law in political, economic and comparative context. It brings competition law to life from an EU and global perspective, with cross currents of trade and industrial policy and attention to the intervention of the state in the market. Quintessentially readable, the book deftly and concisely excerpts the key cases and embeds them in explanatory materials, including policy statements and regulations. It is entirely up to date and integrates, for example, new issues of power in the digital economy. Notes accompanying the cases raise hard questions and explain the fascinating issues underlying contemporary competition policy in the European Union and around the world. The book covers the full range of competition law and policy subjects, namely: the Treaties and the single market, cartels, other horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of dominance, merger control, and state restraints including State aids. Among key features, the book: integrates law, economics and policies, providing a holistic sense of competition law and its place in the EU system is unusually concise, given its coverage, while explaining the critical nuances of cases by means of notes and questions provides a unique comparative perspective by including excerpts of landmark US antitrust cases and numerous other comparative references. This book is a perfect textbook for students of EU competition law and even competition law in general, given that most nations in the antitrust family of the world build their competition laws upon the EU model. It is useful for specialized seminars on European, US, and other nations' and regions' competition laws. It is also an excellent desk book and resource for academics, enforcers and practitioners in the field.

Author : Michelle Cini,Lee McGowan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137044846

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Competition Policy in the European Union by Michelle Cini,Lee McGowan Pdf

Competition Policy in the European Union provides a comprehensive introduction to the European Union's policies on restrictive practices, mergers monopolies and state aid. The authors offer a wide ranging analysis of the evolution, operation and regulation of one of the EU's most important policies in a clear and accessible format.

Author : Abel Moreira Mateus,Teresa Coelho Moreira
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849807036

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Competition Law and Economics by Abel Moreira Mateus,Teresa Coelho Moreira Pdf

Mateus and Moreira present a formidable review of pressing issues in competition law and economics. Top officials, judges and experts from Europe and North America offer their insights into analytical issues, practical problems for companies, enforcers and complainants and on the state of trans-Atlantic divergence and convergence. The discussion on national champions and state aid is prescient. Throughout, the analysis is acute, cutting edge, and deep. Officials, counsel and scholars will draw from this fabulous book for years to come. Philip Marsden, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, UK Competition policy is at a crossroads on both sides of the Atlantic. In this insightful book, judges, enforcers and academics in law and economics look at the consensus built so far and clarify controversies surrounding the issue. There is broad consensus on the fight against cartels, with some countries criminalizing this type of agreement. However there is also wide debate on the questions of monopolization and abuse of dominant position, vividly highlighted by the recent Microsoft case. Furthermore, there are today diverging views on the interplay of business strategies and the control of market power on both a national and international scale. The book discusses the perennial issue in Europe of the conflicts between competition and industrial policies, once again bringing the theme of national champions to the fore. The contributing authors provide opinion on the efforts which have been made towards modernization in both the USA and the EU. Featuring new contributions by leading scholars and practitioners in antitrust, this book will be a great resource for antitrust enforcers, competition lawyers and practitioners and competition economists, as well as scholars and graduate students in antitrust and competition law.

Author : Hubert Buch-Hansen,Angela Wigger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136808937

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The Politics of European Competition Regulation by Hubert Buch-Hansen,Angela Wigger Pdf

Examines the political power struggles that have shaped the evolution of European competition regulation over the past six decades

Author : Kiran Klaus Patel,Heike Schweitzer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191643798

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The Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law by Kiran Klaus Patel,Heike Schweitzer Pdf

Shedding new light on the foundations of European competition law, this volume is a legal and historical study of the emerging law and its evolution through the 1980s. It retraces the development and critical junctures of competition law not only at the level of the European Economic Community but also at the level of major Member States of the EEC. Intensely researched and rich with insights, the chapters in this volume reflect a close collaboration among an expert group of lawyers and historians and capitalize on previously unavailable source materials. The book examines several key themes including: the influence of national and international competition law on the development of EEC competition law; the drafting of the regulations that lead to the development of modern EU competition law; the role of the European Court of Justice in establishing the protection of competition as a central pillar of the Common Market; the internal dynamics, ideologies and tensions within the Competition Directorate General (DG IV) of the European Commission; and the role of industrial policy in European integration. Combining legal analysis with a meticulous excavation of historical evidence to reveal the forces driving key actors and the interactions among them, this volume rediscovers a past largely forgotten but essential to understanding the genesis of competition law in Europe, its role in Europe's construction, its hybrid institutional traits, and its often unique substance.

Author : Christian Koenig,Bernhard von Wendland
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785367595

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The Art of Regulation by Christian Koenig,Bernhard von Wendland Pdf

Increasingly, EU market regulation measures have been introduced in the pursuit of economic justice and welfare. This book illustrates how regulation can help to prevent the abuse of dominance, in particular the abuse of public capital by the state.

Author : Kai Hüschelrath
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783790820904

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Competition Policy Analysis by Kai Hüschelrath Pdf

Competition policy is an integral and prominent part of economic policy-making in the European Union. The EU Treaty prescribes its member states to conduct economic policy ‘in accordance with the principle of an open market economy with free competition’. More precisely, the goal of EU competition policy is “to defend and develop effective competition in the common market” (European Commission, 2000: 7). Under its Commissioners van Miert, Monti and, most - cently, Kroes the EU Commission has stepped up its effort to pursue and achieve the aforementioned goal. A number of so-called hard-core cartels, such as the - torious “vitamin cartel” led by Roche, have been detected, tried in violation of Art. 81 of the Maastricht Accord and punished with severe fines. Also Microsoft was hit hard by the strong hand of the Commission having been severely fined for - ploiting a dominant market position. Economic analysis has been playing an increasingly significant role in the Commission’s examination of competition law cases. This holds true in particular for merger control. Here, however, the Commission has had to accept some poi- ant defeats in court, such as the Court’s reversals of Airtours-First Choice or GE- Honeywell. Among other things, the European Court of Justice found the e- nomic analysis as conducted by the EU’s Directorate General for Competition to be flawed and the conclusions drawn not to be convincing. These rejections by the courts have stirred up the scholarly debate on the conceptual foundations of Eu- pean competition policy.

Author : Andrej Fatur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847319128

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EU Competition Law and the Information and Communication Technology Network Industries by Andrej Fatur Pdf

Competition policies have long been based on a scholarly tradition focused on static models and static analysis of industrial organisation. However, recent developments in industrial organisation literature have led to significant advances, moving beyond traditional static models and a preoccupation with price competition, to consider the organisation of industries in a dynamic context. This is especially important in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) network industries where competition centres on network effects, innovation and intellectual property rights, and where the key driver of consumer benefit is technological progress. Consequently, when an antitrust intervention is contemplated, a number of considerations that arise out of the specific nature of the ICT sector have to be taken into account to ensure improved consumer welfare. This book considers the adequacy of existing EU competition policy in the area of the ICT industries in the light of the findings of modern economic theory. Particular attention is given to the implications of these dynamic markets for the competitive assessment and treatment of the most common competitive harms in this area, such as non-price predatory practices, tying and bundling, co-operative standard setting, platform joint ventures and co-operative R&D.

Author : Hikaru Yoshizawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000466089

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European Union Competition Policy versus Industrial Competitiveness by Hikaru Yoshizawa Pdf

The book examines whether EU competition policy is applied fairly and consistently to EU and non-EU firms despite persistent political pressure from member states for a relaxation of the rules and deals with the dilemma of regional organisations in the global political economy. Focussing on the EU’s desire to achieve balance between the promotion of market competition and the enhancement of international competitiveness, the book explores the validity of its attempts successfully to ensure a ‘stringent competition policy’ which is nationality-blind and comparatively strict. Finally, it shows that the competition-competitiveness dilemma remains unresolved because the EU’s capability to set global regulatory standards is constrained by competition and the need to engage in multilateral forums, such as the WTO and the International Competition Network. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union studies, EU competition law and policy, EU external action and more broadly to global governance, international political economy and international relations.

Author : Brian Shaev,Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351010566

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The Development of European Competition Policy by Brian Shaev,Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez Pdf

This book considers a central issue of our time: the relationship between the macroeconomic objectives of political parties in democratic countries and the legal framework of market economies. The impressive panel of contributors examines social-democratic policies on cartels, market concentration and competition in different European countries, spanning a hundred-year period (specifically the interwar period, the initial postwar period, the 1960s and 1970s, the 1980s and 1990s, and the 2000s). This thought-provoking volume challenges the dominant belief that the EU’s economic system and competition policy were mainly influenced by neoliberal economic thinking, instead showing that Keynesian and social-democratic positions played a major role in the emergence of this system. It will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers interested in modern economic history, industrial organization, political economy, European legal history and political science.

Author : Daniel Zimmer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780857936615

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The Goals of Competition Law by Daniel Zimmer Pdf

What are the normative foundations of competition law? That is the question at the heart of this book. Leading scholars consider whether this branch of law serves just one or more than one goal, and if it serves to protect unfettered competition as such, how this goal relates to other objectives such as the promotion of economic welfare. The book brings together contributions on the relevance of different welfare standards, on the concept of 'freedom to compete' and on distributional fairness as a goal of competition law. Moreover, it discusses the relationship to other legal goals such as mar.

Author : A.E. Walsh,John Paxton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1975-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349019830

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Competition Policy by A.E. Walsh,John Paxton Pdf

Author : Nick Gardner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349107827

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A Guide to United Kingdom and European Community Competition Policy by Nick Gardner Pdf

Although written primarily for use by British businessmen, this book also aims to provide an introduction to the subject of competition policy to students of law, of economics, and of public administration.