Competition, Effects and Predictability

Rule of Law and the Economic Approach to Competition

AvBruce Wardhaugh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

In the US and EU, legal analysis in competition cases is conducted on a case-by-case approach. This approach assesses each particular practice for both its legality and its welfare effects. While this analytic method has the merits of ‘getting the result right’ by, inter alia, reducing error costs in antitrust adjudication, it comes at a cost of certainty, predictability and clarity in the legal principles which govern antitrust law. This is a rule of law concern. This is the first book to explore this tension between Europe’s ‘More Economic Approach’, the US’s Rule of Reason, and the Rule of Law. The tension manifests itself in the assumptions in and choice of analytic method; the institutional agents driving this effects based approach and their competency to use and assess the results of the methodology they demand; and, the nature and stability of the legal principles used in modern effects-based competition analysis. The book forcefully argues that this approach to competition law represents a threat to the rule of law. Competition, Effects and Predictability will be of interest to European and American competition law scholars and practitioners, legal historians, policy makers and members of the judiciary.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-04-16
Mått:160 x 238 x 22 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Hart Studies in Competition Law
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781509926060

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Bruce Wardhaugh is a Senior Lecturer in Competition Law at the University of Manchester.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction I. The Effects-Based or ‘More Economic Approach’ to Antitrust2II. The Organisation and Scope of this Book III. What this Book is Not 1. The Rule of Law and Why it Matters I. The Rhetorical Use and Abuse of ‘The Rule of Law’ II. The Rule of Law as a Normative Concept III. The Rule of Law as a Positive Legal Principle IV. Why the Rule of Law Matters V. Conclusion 2. The Effects-Based Approach in the US: The Rule of Reason I. The Early Background to Sherman Act Interpretation II. Per Se Rules and the Limits to the Rule of Reason III. The Renaissance of the Rule of Reason IV. The Rule of Reason in Practice V. The ‘Quick Look’ Approach VI. The Type of Analysis Matters VII. Effects, Rule of Reason and the Sherman Act Section 2 VIII. Conclusion 3. The Effects-Based Approach in the EU: The More Economic Approach I. The Pre-MEA Understanding of Articles 101 and 102 II. The Shift to the More Economic Approach III. The More Economic Approach IV. Conclusion 34. Economics and the Effects-Based Approach I. The Economics of the Effects-Based Approach II. The Challenge of Behavioural EconomicsIII. The Behavioural Challenge to Antitrust IV. Conclusion 5. Institutional Legitimacy and Competence I. The Reorientation of Antitrust II. The Rule of Law and Institutional Competency III. Conclusion 6. Commercial and Legal Certainty I. Precedents, Stability and the Need for Change II. Rules, Standards and Legal Certainty III. Conclusion Conclusion: Putting the Rule of Law Back into Antitrust