Titlebook: Competition Policy Analysis; An Integrated Approa Kai Hüschelrath Book 2009 Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 2009 Antitrust Law.Cartels.Horizontal

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Introduction,tition and enjoy the best of all monopoly profits: A quiet life! (Hicks, 1935). And indeed, it is easy to imagine that the alternative to an iron monopoly – some form of competition between different iron mines and iron distributors – would not have been a quarter as nice for the man of Sicily. Chal

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,Competition Policy Analysis – An Integrated Approach,eps toward creating and maintaining an efficient antitrust policy. An efficient antitrust policy consists of a set of effectively enforced rules that constrain the firms’ competitive strategies aiming at maximising the total welfare contribution for a given enforcement budget. To put it differently,

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Conclusions,n policy has established itself in most industrialised countries as an integral part of public policy that contributes substantially to the improvement of the wealth of nations. The ongoing reforms of European competition policy, however, together with the discussions on further harmonisation needs

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Annex,ugh the deterrence effect of cartel laws (which can hardly be measured), an analysis of customer losses due to actual cartelisation reveals important insights into the desirability of cartel enforcement from a consumer welfare perspective. One way to underpin this allegation is to argue that without

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Fighting Predation,inked to intervention against predation strategies. As developed in chapter 2, thoughtful answers to the intervention question are key in the development and implementation of an integrated approach of antitrust analysis which aims at creating and maintaining an efficient antitrust policy.

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Conclusions, supply and demand with respect to such questions is reflected, for instance, in the recent launch of three academic journals devoted to competition and competition policy. Somehow incorporating the viewpoints of both, policymakers and academics, the exponential increase in the revenues of economic

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Annex,rd. Especially the consumers who only pay more for their products are not reflected in the total welfare loss, as their loss in surplus is just redistributed to the producers. The total welfare loss of a cartel agreement is created by the customers who would have bought the product at the competitiv