1st Edition

Antitrust Federalism in the EU and the US

By Firat Cengiz Copyright 2012
254 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

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 governance in competition policy from a comparative perspective. The book analyses how competition... Read more

1. Introduction: The Concept of Antitrust Federalism and the Structure of the Book  2.  Searching for a Model of Multi-Level Policy Enforcement: Models of Regulatory Competition and Policy Networks  3. Relations between the Competition Laws and Federalism in the US and the EU  4.  Relations between the Competition Authorities: Networks in the US and the EU  5. Conclusions: Antitrust federalism in the US and the EU, Transatlantic Policy Learning and Contributions to the Theory

Biography

Firat Cengiz is assistant professor in the European and International Law Department of Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands and is a senior member of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC).

‘Cengiz’s book reaches significantly beyond legal analysis to examine the economics of federalism and also the political processes that characterize competition policy federalism in the EU and the US. [...] This is an excellent book, of interest to academicians or legislators as much as practicing lawyers in areas of federal regulatory conflict.’ Herbert J. Hovenkamp, University of Iowa - College of Law