Competition's new clothes

20 short cases on rivalry between firms

Lévêque recounts twenty revealing tales of real-life rivalry between firms across diverse industries, including wine, skiing, opera, video games and cruise liners. These entertaining and insightful narratives are informed by recent advances in economics, factoring in the many forces driving competition, including globalization and innovation ...

Competitive electricity markets and sustainability

This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of power generation. The building of new generation and transmission capacity and the setting of the energy mix between nuclear, gas and renewable resources are mainly left ...

Antitrust, patents and copyright

EU and US perspectives

In modern markets innovation is at least as great a concern as price competition. The book discusses how antitrust policy and patent and copyright laws interact to create market dynamics that affect both competition and innovation. Antitrust and intellectual property policies for the most part ...

Économie de la réglementation

Pour réduire la pollution, faut-il taxer le CO2, créer un marché de droits de polluer ou fixer des normes d'émission ? Faut-il accorder un droit de monopole à la distribution du courrier ? La déréglementation remet-elle en cause le service public ? la réglementation est-elle d'abord ...

Transport pricing of electricity network

Merger remedies in American and European Union competition law

This volume presents a comparative analysis of merger remedies in the EU and USA, motivated by the fact that a growing number of mergers are being scrutinized and reviewed under both jurisdictions. Merger remedies on either side of the Atlantic play an increasingly important role ...