Routledge Research in Competition Law
Competition Law and Collusion in Public Procurement
1st Edition
By Penelope Giosa
August 22, 2025
This book examines infringements of competition law in public procurement settings, evaluating the latest European Procurement Directive 2014/24/EU to examine to what extent its provisions facilitate or deter collusion during specific award procedures. Public contracts account for a significant ...
Big Data and Competition Law: Market Power Assessment in the Data-Driven Economy
1st Edition
By Alptekin Koksal
June 27, 2025
Recent studies on competition law and digital markets reveal that accumulating personal information through data collection and acquisition methods benefits consumers considerably. Free of charge, fast and personalised services and products are offered to consumers online. Collected data is now an ...
Agriculture, Sustainability and Competition Law: Policy Paradigms and Their Legal Implications
1st Edition
By Martin Milán Csirszki
April 22, 2025
Through a detailed law-and-policy analysis, this book investigates competition law and policy in relation to agricultural producers, examining the topic in light of both the neoliberal agricultural policy and food sovereignty paradigms, with a focus on their differing approaches to competition and ...
Antitrust Law and Mergers
1st Edition
By David Hansen
March 31, 2025
This book discusses the economic models and quantitative research involved in merger control forecasts and the relationship between antitrust law and economics. Analyzing qualitative and quantitative models within forecasts of merger control, the book applies the framework of antitrust law. This ...
Competition Law in China and the EU: Institutional Dynamics and Theories of Harm
1st Edition
By Xingyu Yan
December 16, 2024
This book presents a comprehensive review of the Chinese and European responses to the abuse of market dominance, with a focus on the impact of antitrust institutional dynamics on enforcement decisions. It uses the methods of functional comparison and case analysis to investigate how theories of ...
Private Law and Competition Regulation: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Alberto Brown
July 12, 2024
This book explores the distinction between private and public aspects in competition law and focuses on how the concept of competition is incorporated into the legal framework. Distinguishing between antitrust regulations and competition-related legal rules in private law, such as unfair ...
Competition Laws, National Interests and International Relations
1st Edition
By Ko Unoki
June 30, 2021
Most of the competition laws currently enforced by states aim to protect consumer welfare and promote fair competition by regulating against anticompetitive behavior. Yet despite the shared objectives the global community does not have a common global competition law. In exploring the reasons for ...
Antitrust Federalism in the EU and the US
1st Edition
By Firat Cengiz
September 20, 2013
The EU and the US are the preeminent examples of multi-level polities and both have highly developed competition policies. Despite these similarities however, recent developments suggest that they are moving in different directions in the area of antitrust federalism. This book examines multi-level...
Competition and Regulation in the Airline Industry: Puppets in Chaos
1st Edition
By Steven Truxal
September 20, 2013
An examination of the relationship between competition and the deregulation and liberalisation of the US and European air transport sectors reveals that the structure of the air transport sector has undergone a number of significant changes. A growing number of airlines are entering into horizontal...
Merger Control in Europe: The Gap in the ECMR and National Merger Legislations
1st Edition
By Ioannis Kokkoris
September 10, 2012
This book addresses the phenomenon of mergers that may result in non-coordinated effects in oligopolistic markets. Such cases are sometimes referred to as "non-collusive oligopolies", or "gap cases" and there is a concern that they might not be covered by the substantive test that some Member ...
Merger Control in Post-Communist Countries: EC Merger Regulation in Small Market Economies
1st Edition
By Jurgita Malinauskaite
September 10, 2012
This book provides a critical analysis of merger control regimes in the former socialist countries with small market economies, looking at the unique challenges facing these economies. Questions will be asked as to what extent these countries have had to follow dictation from the EU and whether ...
The Internationalisation of Competition Rules
1st Edition
By Brendan J. Sweeney
July 29, 2011
The widespread move towards more market-driven models of political economy combined with the expanding internationalisation of business and commerce has led to a series of proposals for global competition rules. To date these proposals have been hotly contested. The purpose of this book is to ...