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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 Second Edition will be accessible to a wide audience including students of economics and law, public administrators, lawyers, consultants, and business executives.
Contributors: D.B. Audretsch, E.W. Bond, A.W.A. Boot, V. Ghosal, R. Griffith, K. Hüschelrath, C. Kirchner, M. Marinc, S. Martin, D.C. Mueller, L. Nesheim, M. Neumann, A. Rasch, A. Rathbone, C. Rowley, A. Wambach, J. Weigand, B.B. Yurtoglu
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 Second Edition will be accessible to a wide audience including students of economics and law, public administrators, lawyers, consultants, and business executives.
Contributors: D.B. Audretsch, E.W. Bond, A.W.A. Boot, V. Ghosal, R. Griffith, K. Hüschelrath, C. Kirchner, M. Marinc, S. Martin, D.C. Mueller, L. Nesheim, M. Neumann, A. Rasch, A. Rathbone, C. Rowley, A. Wambach, J. Weigand, B.B. Yurtoglu
Contents:
Introduction
Manfred Neumann and Jürgen Weigand
1. Globalization and the Natural Limits of Competition
Stephen Martin
2. Efficiency versus Market Power through Mergers
Dennis C. Mueller and B. Burcin Yurtoglu
3. Entrepreneurship and Competition Policy
David B. Audretsch
4. Trade Policy and Competition Policy: Conflict vs. Mutual
Support
Eric W. Bond
5. Financial Services: Strategic Positioning and Competitive
Issues
Arnoud W.A. Boot and Matej Marinč
6. The Political Economy of Antitrust
Charles Rowley and Anne Rathbone
7. Defining Antitrust Markets
Rachel Griffith and Lars Nesheim
8. Reconceptualizing Competition and Competition Policy in a New
Institutional Economics-Perspective
Christian Kirchner
9. Horizontal Concentration, Endogenous Fixed Costs, Efficiency and
Merger Control
Manfred Neumann
10. Assessing Potential Competition in Antitrust Markets
Vivek Ghosal
11. Fighting Hard Core Cartels
Kai Hüschelrath and Jürgen Weigand
12. Auctions and Competition Policy
Alexander Rasch and Achim Wambach
Index
Edited by the late Manfred Neumann, formerly Professor Emeritus of Economics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Jürgen Weigand, Professor of Economics, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany
’This comprehensive Handbook demonstrates that academic thinking,
new and old, has a role to play in shaping modern competition
policy.
*Gunnar Niels, Oxera*
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