The Political Economy Of European Union Competition Policy

Author : Hubert Buch-Hansen,Angela Wigger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136808920

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

The Politics of European Competition Regulation provides an original and theoretically informed account of the political power struggles that have shaped the evolution of European competition regulation over the past six decades. Applying a critical political economy perspective, this book analyses the establishment and development of competition regulation at European Community and national level since the 1950s. It puts forth the central argument that competition regulation came to reflect the broader shift towards a neoliberal order since the 1980s. Buch-Hansen and Wigger argue that this shift, which took place against the background of the gradual transnationalisation of capitalist production and the economic crisis of the late 1970s, was driven by the European Commission in alliance with the emerging transnational capitalist class. The authors examine the political responses to the current global economic crisis in the fields of state aid, cartel prosecution and merger control and conclude that an alternative type of competition regulation, which forms part of a much broader transformation of the current socioeconomic order, is needed. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of (global) political economy, European integration and competition law.

Author : Chad Damro,Terrence Guay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137318671

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European Competition Policy and Globalization by Chad Damro,Terrence Guay Pdf

This book examines the domestic and international dimensions of European Union (EU) competition policy, particularly mergers, anti-competitive practices and state aids. The authors argue that important changes in EU competition policy are having profound effects on the global political economy, and these changes are best understood as European Commission responses to new domestic and international pressures. Using a two-level game analytical framework that is both intra-EU and global in scope, Damro and Guay investigate a wide variety of domestic and foreign public and private actors that interact in crucial ways to determine the development and implementation of EU competition policy. They address this broad question: In what ways do changing external and internal factors affect the evolution of the EU's competition policy and the role that the Commission plays in it? Among the conclusions is that the EU – and particularly the European Commission – has become a leading global regulator.

Author : Tuna Baskoy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135890148

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The Political Economy of European Union Competition Policy by Tuna Baskoy Pdf

In the European Union (EU), competition policy occupies a central place amongst other EU public policies and is the first truly supranational public policy regulating market competition. One of the stated objectives of EU competition policy is to prevent excessive concentration of economic power in the hands of a few. This book investigates the political economy of EU competition policy by taking the European telecommunications industry as a case study. Baskoy argues that the EU competition policy has failed to achieve its objectives of preventing excessive market concentration in the telecommunications industry over the past quarter-century. He takes the controversial view that EU competition policy foremost promotes an industrial policy that fosters the profitability of European firms. Moreover, Baskoy argues that EU competition policy is short of adequate theoretical and conceptual capacities to comprehend the working dynamics of market competition and the market behavior of firms. This exceptional book will be of interest to scholars of Politics, Economics, Business, and International Relations and Policies.

Author : Hikaru Yoshizawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Mattia Guidi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137588142

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Competition Policy Enforcement in EU Member States by Mattia Guidi Pdf

This book investigates the crucial EU policy of competition, which is enforced by the Commission and by national agencies that enjoy various degrees of autonomy from their governments. More and more policy-making activities are nowadays delegated to agencies that cannot be held accountable to parliaments, and ultimately to voters. The author explains why this is the case in the field of EU competition policy and discusses whether independence is linked to improved enforcement – as theories of delegation and common wisdom would suggest. These questions are explored with an in-depth analysis covering 27 EU countries for 17 years (1993–2009). While the results show that independence is given when countries lack credibility and good reputation, they also point out that autonomy from governments can hardly be associated with improved regulatory output. So, is independence of competition authorities useful to society in the end? This book will appeal to upper-level students and scholars interested in competition policy, regulatory agencies, and European public policy.

Author : Kai Hüschelrath
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Brian Shaev,Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Xavier Vives
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199566358

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Competition Policy in the EU by Xavier Vives Pdf

" ... product of a conference organized by the Public-Private Sector Research Center of IESE Business School on November 19-20, 2007 ..."--Pref.

Author : Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781957096

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The Political Economy of the European Union by Gert Tinggaard Svendsen Pdf

The Political Economy of Integration in the European Union has gained a well-deserved reputation as the key textbook in the area of European studies, economics and politics. This new and fully revised edition comprehensively surveys recent changes - such as the deepening and widening of European integration through eastward expansion and the Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties - whilst continuing to offer a thorough overview of integration. The core material has been revised to ensure the best possible grounding in the political economy of the EU. Jeffrey Harrop presents an accessible account of European integration, including: * free trade, the customs union and the internal market * agriculture and fisheries * industrial and technological policies * regional and social problems and policies * monetary integration * fiscal policy: taxation and the EU budget * world-wide trading links * an in-depth discussion of EU enlargement, including the proposed integration of Central and East European countries * an assessment of energy, transport and environment policies * an overall view of the progress and possible future of the European Union. The book has been widely adopted for both specialist courses in economics as well as interdisciplinary courses in European studies. Teachers who are already using the book or who would like to consider it are invited to send for a 60-day examination copy of the third edition.

Author : Manfred Neumann,Jürgen Weigand
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849806060

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The International Handbook of Competition by Manfred Neumann,Jürgen Weigand Pdf

ÔThis comprehensive Handbook demonstrates that academic thinking, new and old, has a role to play in shaping modern competition policy.Õ Ð Gunnar Niels, Oxera This indispensable Handbook examines the interface of competition policy, competition law and industrial economics. The book aims to further our understanding of how economic reasoning and legal expertise complement each other in defining the fundamental issues and principles in competition policy. In specially commissioned chapters the book provides a scholarly review of economic theory, empirical evidence and standards of legal evaluation with respect to monopolization of markets, exploitation of market power and mergers, among other issues. The International Handbook of Competition Ð Second Edition will be accessible to a wide audience including students of economics and law, public administrators, lawyers, consultants, and business executives.

Author : Johann Eekhoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540247128

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Competition Policy in Europe by Johann Eekhoff Pdf

The modern industrial states desperately need more competition in order to generate growth and employment. Although the European Union pushed its member states to open several sectors to competition, there is much left to be done. At the same time powerful interest groups try to avoid or to reduce competition on European labour markets, in the health systems, in the transport and energy sector, in public services, and in many other areas. This book shows that there is much to be gained from intensifying competition and that especially consumers would benefit. One task is to lay a sound basis for the application of competition. The other task is to implement and guarantee competition. The authors cover both issues.

Author : Dieter Schmidtchen,Max Albert,Stefan Voigt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : 3161494148

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The More Economic Approach to European Competition Law by Dieter Schmidtchen,Max Albert,Stefan Voigt Pdf

Author : Kostas A. Lavdas,Maria M. Mendrinou
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024341625

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Politics, Subsidies and Competition by Kostas A. Lavdas,Maria M. Mendrinou Pdf

Politics, Subsidies and Competition focuses on the interplay of political, economic and institutional-legal factors in the formation of European competition policy, with particular emphasis on European Union control of national subsidies. This book demonstrates the increasing significance of the EU in the management of European economies. It argues that state subsidization is the only remaining effective form of state intervention because, in the integrated European market, state aid - ranging from investment and export aid to special tax concessions - has become the only instrument that can be used to favour and protect national industries. This makes the control of state subsidization more important than ever, and the European Community's attempts to increase this control since the mid-1970s tell an intriguing story of fierce intergovernmental bargaining, business lobbying and increasingly assertive EC/EU institutions. The argument is supported by evidence of the evolution of European policy and by case studies of sectoral aid regimes and their transformation in interaction with EU policy. This book will be of use to students and scholars of the economics and politics of Western Europe and regional and public policy.

Author : Parcu, Pier L.,Monti, Giorgio,Botta, Marco
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800370197

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Economic Analysis in EU Competition Policy by Parcu, Pier L.,Monti, Giorgio,Botta, Marco Pdf

This insightful book assesses emerging trends in the role of economic analysis in EU competition policy, exploring how it has substantially increased in terms of both theories and methods.

Author : Damien Geradin,Anne Layne-Farrar,Nicolas Petit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191637490

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EU Competition Law and Economics by Damien Geradin,Anne Layne-Farrar,Nicolas Petit Pdf

This is the first EU competition law treatise that fully integrates economic reasoning in its treatment of the decisional practice of the European Commission and the case-law of the European Court of Justice. Since the European Commission's move to a "more economic approach" to competition law reasoning and decisional practice, the use of economic argument in competition law cases has become a stricter requirement. Many national competition authorities are also increasingly moving away from a legalistic analysis of a firm's conduct to an effect-based analysis of such conduct, indeed most competition cases today involve teams composed of lawyers and industrial organisation economists. Competition law books tend to have either only cursory coverage of economics, have separate sections on economics, or indeed are far too technical in the level of economic understanding they assume. Ensuring a genuinely integrated approach to legal and economic analysis, this major new work is written by a team combining the widely recognised expertise of two competition law practitioners and a prominent economic consultant. The book contains economic reasoning throughout in accessible form, and, more pertinently for practitioners, examines economics in the light of how it is used and put to effect in the courts and decision-making institutions of the EU. A general introductory section sets EU competition law in its historical context. The second chapter goes on to explore the economics foundations of EU competition law. What follows then is an integrated treatment of each of the core substantive areas of EU competition law, including Article 101 TFEU, Article 102 TFEU, mergers, cartels and other horizontal agreements and vertical restraints.