书目名称 | Competition Policy Analysis | 副标题 | An Integrated Approa | 编辑 | Kai Hüschelrath | 视频video | | 概述 | Includes supplementary material: | 丛书名称 | ZEW Economic Studies | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Competition policy is an integral and prominent part of economic policy-making in the European Union. The EU Treaty prescribes its member states to conduct economic policy ‘in accordance with the principle of an open market economy with free competition’. More precisely, the goal of EU competition policy is “to defend and develop effective competition in the common market” (European Commission, 2000: 7). Under its Commissioners van Miert, Monti and, most - cently, Kroes the EU Commission has stepped up its effort to pursue and achieve the aforementioned goal. A number of so-called hard-core cartels, such as the - torious “vitamin cartel” led by Roche, have been detected, tried in violation of Art. 81 of the Maastricht Accord and punished with severe fines. Also Microsoft was hit hard by the strong hand of the Commission having been severely fined for - ploiting a dominant market position. Economic analysis has been playing an increasingly significant role in the Commission’s examination of competition law cases. This holds true in particular for merger control. Here, however, the Commission has had to accept some poi- ant defeats in court, such as the Court’s reversals of Airtours- | 出版日期 | Book 2009 | 关键词 | Antitrust Law; Cartels; Horizontal Merger; Predation; competition; competition policy | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2090-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-7908-2089-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-7908-2090-4Series ISSN 1615-6781 Series E-ISSN 1867-2027 | issn_series | 1615-6781 | copyright | Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 2009 |
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