Justus Haucap - Böcker

Access to essential facilities or so-called bottlenecks has become the key public policy issue for the liberalization of network industries such as telecommunications, electricity, rail and so on. Still, access prices are not only important for competition in formerly monopolistic industries, but also for industries where competition has long been established such as payment and credit card networks or mobile telecommunications. As the latter industries have also come under closer scrutiny by regulatory agencies and competition authorities, this book is dedicated to the analysis of access pricing in theory and practice. The structure of this book which is organized in five parts is as follows: The extended introduction will introduce the key concepts and issues including a brief explanation of the essential facility concept as well as the distinction between one-way and two-way access and will briefly survey the main contributions within the literature on access pricing theory and practice. While parts I and II deal with the theory of one-way and two-way access pricing, respectively, part III focuses on the newly emerging theory of access pricing with multihoming. Parts IV and V address the practice side and focus on industry-specific applications and special problems (Part IV) as well as public policy issues (Part V). This book provides valuable theoretical and empirical analyses in Access Pricing and related topics. It offers several different points of view. It features research from highly reputed scientists working in this field.

Competition and Sustainability critically examines how the market economy can be preserved without compromising the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. Serving as a useful overview of the problems and solutions found in one of the most controversial issues in current antitrust doctrine, this topical book offers concrete policy options for EU competition law.How can concerns over climate change, the supply chain, or animal welfare be integrated into antitrust? What can competition agencies do to help transform the market economy to a more sustainable one? Renowned experts in competition economics, law and sustainability answer these questions, and in doing so dissect issues such as cartels, exemptions, monopolisation, the environmental, social, and governance transformation, and merger control. Problems with government intervention in markets, quantification, and the danger of greenwashing are confronted with a thorough examination of the options for policy reform.This indispensable book tackles the transformation to the sustainable market economy with competition at its core. It will prove useful to academics in the fields of competition and antitrust law, corporate law and governance, European law, environmental law, and political economy, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in legal and economic fields.

Das Energiekartellrecht nimmt eine Sonderstellung ein. Diese beruht auf den technisch-physikalischen Besonderheiten der Strom- und Gasversorgung sowie der umfassenden Regulierung des Netzbetriebs. Ziel des Werkes ist es, dem Leser auf dem Stand der aktuellen Rechtslage einen vertieften Gesamtüberblick über die Kartellrechtspraxis in den Bereichen der leitungsgebundenen Energie- und Wärmeversorgung sowie der Elektromobilitätsinfrastruktur zu bieten. Dabei werden nicht nur die rechtlichen Grundzüge erläutert, sondern auch ein Einblick in die durch die Klimaschutzziele angetriebene Veränderung der Märkte und die damit verbundenen neuen kartellrechtlichen Fragestellung gegeben.

Der vorliegende Gedenkband würdigt das außergewöhnliche wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftspolitische Wirken von Heike Schweitzer. Die herausragende Kartelljuristin prägte nicht nur das europäische Wettbewerbsrecht maßgeblich mit, sondern beschäftigte sich weit über die Grenzen der Jurisprudenz hinaus mit wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitischen Themen. Der Band versammelt ausgewählte Schriften des Kronberger Kreises, dem wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft, zu Themen wie Energiepolitik, digitalen Märkten und Krankenhausversorgung, an denen Heike Schweitzer besonders intensiv mitgearbeitet hat. Diese Schriften dokumentieren nicht nur die Breite ihres Schaffens, sondern spiegeln sehr gut ihre Grundposition wider, dass in einer freiheitlichen Gesellschaft zwar staatliche Rahmenbedingungen notwendig sind, eigenverantwortliches Handeln und Entscheidungsfreiheiten aber nicht mehr als notwendig beschränkt werden dürfen.

Telecommunication markets are characterized by a dynamic development of technology and market structures. The specific features of network-based markets, convergence of previously separate spheres and the complex task of market regulation put traditional theoretical approaches as well as current regulatory policies to the test. This book sheds light on some of the challenges ahead. It covers a vast range of subjects from the intricacies of market regulation to new markets for mobile and internet-related services. The diffusion of broadband technology and the emergence of new business strategies that respond to the technological and regulatory challenges are treated in the book’s 24 chapters.