Description
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays contains contributions by a group of specialists in the area of competition law,including heads of the world's major competition and antitrust enforcement authorities, renowned scholars and private practitioners. The focus of the volume is the objectives of competition policy of the European Union and other major jurisdictions, the prospects of multilateral competition code, and the relationship between objectives and implementation issues. This is the second in a series of volumes intended to provide an up-to-date commentary on new developments and trends, the first of which was published in 1997.
Trade ReviewThe aim [of the book] is clearly to provide an overview of the current state of developments in this complicated and fast-moving legal field and this is achieved in the best way possible. Tom Pick World Competition Law and Economics Review September 2002
Table of ContentsIntroduction: objectives of competition policy in general; competition policy objectives in the context of a multilateral competition code; objectives of competition policy in the context of future reforms of the EU's competition policy; conclusions. Biographical notes on the participants. Competition policy objectives: panel discussion; working papers - Frederic Jenny, Gabriel Castaneda, Allan Fels, Anna Fornalczyk, Hideaki Kobayashi, Francine Matte, Damien Neven, Alexander Schaub, Dieter Wolf. Competition policy objectives in the context of a multilateral competition code: panel discussion; working papers - Eleanor Fox, Roderick Abbott, Jacques Bourgeois, Ulrich Immenga, R. Shyam Khemani, Joel Klein, Mitsuo Matsushita, Petros Mavroidis, Francois Souty. Competition law implementation at present: panel discussion; working papers - Barry Hawk, Ian Forrester, Calvin Goldman, Herbert Hovenkamp, Martin Howe, Abbott (Tad) Lipsky. Future competition law: panel discussion; working papers - Richard Whish, Jonathan Faull, Christian Kirchner, Valentine Korah, Mario Siragusa, James Venit, Michel Waelbroeck, Alberto Heimler & Piero Fattori.
