EC competition and telecomunications Law

Eds. Christian Koenig...[et.al]. This new volume updates the groundbreaking analysis of its first edition in 2002, when the EC common regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services had just entered into force. So much has changed in the intervening years that that ...

An institutional assessment of antitrust policy

the Latin America experience

CONTENTS: Introduction Latin American Antitrust Policy: A Concealed Utopia? Pt. I The Wellsprings of Latin American Competition Policy Ch. 1 Government Intervention as the Source of Monopoly in Latin America Ch. 2 The Adoption of Antitrust Policy in Latin America Ch. 3 Antitrust Policy: The ...

The role of economic analysis in the EC competition rules

The thesis of this now-classic work - that the European Commission and the Community Courts, under the necessity of forging an effective competition policy, created an entire new school of thought in economic theory that permeates the disciplinary boundary between law and economics - has been gaining ...

Liner Shipping and EU Competition Law

As of October 2008, liner shipping companies lose their privileged status under EU competition law due to withdrawal of the liner conference block exemption, which generously authorized horizontal price-fixing and similar agreements between liner shipping companies. Where the liner consortia block exemption does not apply ...

Competition problems in liberalized telecommunications

regulatory solutions to promote effective competition

This innovative study of the role of competition law in the telecommunications industry starts from a classic perspective: While, in principle, regulation benefits social welfare and efficient allocation of resources, past regulatory experience shows that regulation can be flawed and lead to welfare harm rather ...

Civil procedure used for enforcement of EC competition Law by the english, french and german Civil Courts

European competition law has been increasingly subject to two complementary forces: decentralisation and harmonisation. In the course of this process, certain procedural elements have come to the fore as constituting impediments to the enforcement of Articles 81 and 82 EC in terms of actions for ...

Competition and State Aid

an analysis of the EC practice

What are the real issues underlying the Commission#s extensive application of Article 87 EC in relation to State aid schemes? In this important new interpretation of the relation of State aid to EU inter-state competition, nine prominent Italian jurists of Santa Maria law firm ...

The EC merger control regulation

a critical analysis of DG COMP practice and community courts´jurisprudence

Merger control constitutes a well-established pillar of EU competition law. However, the drafters of the Community competition merger legislation, in view of the need to attain the imperative goal of market integration, put more emphasis on the clarification of the substantive rules applied by the ...

Mergers and acquisitions

the industrial organization perspective

Drawing on twenty years of merger analysis literature, this single source offers practical solutions to a wide range of problems faced by specialists working in the field of mergers and acquisitions. The authors take an industrial organization approach in which effects on profits, on consumer ...

Competition Rules for the 21st Century

principles from America's experience

Originally written to wide acclaim in 2001, Ky Ewing's magisterial work on international competition law is here updated to take stock of the prodigious expansion of anti-cartel enforcement throughout the world in the intervening years, and of the extraordinary success of the International Competition ...