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Methodologically, comparative law and economics applies the conceptual apparatus and empirical methods of economics to the study of comparative law and legal systems. A panacea for competition law damages actions in the eu. Aug 10, 2012 the limitations of the rules need to be put right since achievement of the very goals of competition law requires a well designed set of competition rules and effective implementation schemes. This new casebook presents a globalized approach to antitrust law and provides an understanding of the main antitrust regimes that apply throughout the world today. Mattei shows how concepts from economics can be applied to the study of comparative law. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read global competition law and economics. Forthcoming, maastricht journal of european and comparative law 2019. This book studies competition policy, an area which has emerged as a vibrant and influential discipline within the study of economic policy and policy making.
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Preliminary may 17, 2009 subject to change comparative. Interestingly, however, a deep dichotomy exists between the american legal doctrine on comparative. Reflections on the definition of the relevant markets, daniel mandrescu, issue 3, pp. Tradelawguide also notes up wto decisions by tracking how subsequent wto reports, awards and decisions have considered specific passages in wto jurisprudence. This page contains listing of free law books online textbooks and tutorials they are downnloadable or for viewing online in the html pdf zip chm or rar file formats. Edition 2 ebook written by einer elhauge, damien geradin. Competition law and the institutional embeddedness of economics david j. The law of comparative advantage was developed by david ricardo in 1817 to explain the reason behind international trade between countries even when one countrys businesses, factories, and workers are more efficient at producing every single good than the other country. Trademarks, comparative advertising, and product imitations. Thank you for the kind introduction and warm welcome.
Comparative law provides a very fertile ground for the economist in searching for interesting issues to analyze. Before the economics of transition, comparative economics was devoted. It looks first at the current state of the literature. Jan 28, 2020 tradelawguide is a comprehensive world trade organization law database that allows users to search across pdf files of official awards, decisions, and other wto documents. He notes and seems to regret this fact the fundamental divergence that may exist between the european and american conception of these objectives. This volumes specially commissioned chapters by leading writers from the united states, europe, asia, south america, and australia provide a synthesis of how these current issues are addressed by drawing on the approaches taken in different jurisdictions around the world. Comparative law and economics university of michigan press.
He notes and seems to regret this fact the fundamental divergence that may exist between the european and american conception of these. This article attempts to make a brief comparative and functional analysis of some of the major inadequacies of the trade practices proclamation. A more economic approach to the application of competition law means that the. Assessing the economic impact of competition ii acknowledgements the authors wish to thank david ongolo, chiwama musonda, peter quartey, elvis agyareboakye, tran ngoc diep, vu huy, shaikh eskander, iftekharul huq, shyam khemani, john davies, juanpablo rud, and alena kozakova, who all participated in the project as study team members in the. Article 85 of the treaty of rome,1 which prohibits agreements that distort competition and, accordingly, agreements that fix prices, is roughly. Section 3 examines the theory of competition and gives an introductory account of why the effective enforcement of competition law is thought to be beneficial for consumer welfare. It offers a fully integrated analysis of us and eu competition law and economics. Since the days of the enlightenment, economists have agreed that good economic institutions must secure property rights, enabling people to keep the returns on their investment, make contracts, and resolve disputes. Fox on the surface, there appears to be much in common between competition law in the united states and competition law in the european union. The role of economic analysis in eu competition law, in its revised and updated fourth edition, explores the full spectrum of the development of european economic approach in competition law.
It envisions a path for comparative antitrust law scholarship that may allow it to realize more fully its potential value and respond more effectively to the challenges of economic globalization. Almost two decades after the arrival of the more economics based approach to eu competition law, this economic school of thought, the europe. Comparative law and economics, on the other hand, may also. From the latter perspective, there may be too much or wrong economics in european competition law. An economics perspective and a synthesis by satya dev gupta there is a considerable amount of controversy about the models of comparative advantage and its applicability to international business, in particular as a guide to the success of nations andor firms in international markets. Pdf download comparative competition law and economics. Section 2 describes the practices that competition laws attempt to control in order to protect the competition process.
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Economic models must be relevant to understand reallife markets and requirements of the legal. The global dominance of european competition law over. Offering a concise and critical comparison of eu competition law and us antitrust law from an economic perspective, this is the ideal textbook for international and interdisciplinary courses. It uses evidence from the involvement of economists in competition investigations, as well. This chapter provides an overview of competition law and its economic context. Presented at the international bar association conference on competition law and policy in a global context cape town, south africa. Moving forward, the aegc is committed to focus its work on establishing enforceable competition rules, putting in place effective institutional mechanisms for the implementation of competition law, creating. Trademark and unfair competition conflicts by tim w. Professor of economics, delhi school of economics, university of delhi, delhi 17, india. I would like to thank avinash sharma for excellent research assistance, manish agarwal and david round for very helpful comments on earlier drafts, and the east asian international law and policy programme of the university of hong kong for financial support. Comparative law and economics of standardessential. The extension to many idiosyncratic topics and issues that sometime lie outside the traditional domain of the discipline have fostered the emergence of a new consciousness better grasped by a comparative approach.
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