Challenges in EU competition policy

This paper puts forward some challenges facing European Competition Policy. It starts out with the premises that European Competition Policy has been one of the great achievements of European Integration. However, there are several areas of competition policy that remain to be challenging, especiall...

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Published inEmpirica Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 287 - 314
Main Author Roller, Lars-Hendrik
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer US 01.07.2011
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
SeriesEmpirica
Subjects
Acquisitions & mergers
Alliances
Antitrust
Competition
Competition policy
Consumers
Debates
Econometrics
Economic impact
Economic policy
Economic regulation
Economics
Economics and Finance
Europe
European Integration
European policy
European Union
Government aid
Industrial Organization
International Economics
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
Market definition
Market mechanisms
Market structure
Markets
Merger control
Mergers
Original Paper
Public Finance
Regulation
State aid
Studies
Europe
Merger control
Market definition
Regulation
State aid
Competition policy
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Summary:This paper puts forward some challenges facing European Competition Policy. It starts out with the premises that European Competition Policy has been one of the great achievements of European Integration. However, there are several areas of competition policy that remain to be challenging, especially in terms of their economic impact on consumers, markets, and firms. Specifically, the paper addresses four areas: (1) efficiencies in merger control properly, (2) market definition, (3) the role of distortions of competition in state aid control, and (4) the balance between competition policy and regulation.
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ISSN:0340-8744
1573-6911
DOI:10.1007/s10663-010-9164-x