A volume that takes stock and looks ahead on the development and implementation of competition policy in the European Union fifty years after the Treaty of Rome. Competition policy has emerged as a key policy in the EU with competition acting as the...
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A volume that takes stock and looks ahead on the development and implementation of competition policy in the European Union fifty years after the Treaty of Rome. Competition policy has emerged as a key policy in the EU with competition acting as the driving force for economic efficiency and the welfare of citizens. Case law has been established to control and prevent anti-competitve behavior, state aid control has consolidated and evolved towards a more economic approach, and theauthority of the EC and the judicial review of the Court of the First Instance (CFI) and the European Court of Justi
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Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Competition Policy in Europe; 2. The Design of Competition Policy Institutions for the Twenty-first Century: The Experience of the European Commission and the Directorate-General for Competition; 3. Article 81 EC Revisited: Deciphering European Commission Antitrust Goals and Rules; 4. Some Economics of Abuse of Dominance; 5. Cartels in the European Union: Economics,Law, Practice; 6. An Economic Assessment of European Commission Merger Control: 1958-2007
7. State Aids: Economic Analysis and Practice in the European Union8. Competition Policy and Sector-specific Regulation for Network Industries; 9. European Telecoms Regulation: Past Performance and Prospects; 10. Regulation and Competition Policy in the Banking Sector; 11. European Union Regulation and Competition Policy among the Energy Utilities; 12. Competition Policy in the European Union and the United States: Convergence or Divergence?; Bibliography; Cases Cited; European Directives; Index
