Lévêque, François; Shelanski, Howard --- "Antitrust and Regulation in the EU and US" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009) [2009] ELECD 558

Editor(s): Lévêque, François; Shelanski, Howard

Title: Antitrust and Regulation in the EU and US

Sub-title: Legal and Economic Perspectives

Series: New Horizons in Competition Law and Economics series

Topics: Competition Policy; Law and Economics; Competition and Antitrust Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 28 December 2009

Number of pages: 224

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847207616

EISBN: 9781848447394

Abstract/Description:

The diverse and excellent set of authors assembled in this book sheds light on the continuing and conflicting calls for deregulation and re-regulation of important industries and informs the ongoing, increasingly global, policy debate over the evolving line between regulation and general competition policy. The purpose of this book is to understand the debate and its policy implications, focusing on the traditionally regulated sectors of telecommunications and energy, and comparing approaches in the European Union and the United States. The book also contains contributions that generalize across industries, thus lending relevance beyond the two sectors that anchor the book.

Innovatively combining legal and economic views, Antitrust and Regulation in the EU and US will be of great interest to scholars of competition law, international law firms, and competition authorities and sector-specific regulation authorities (federal and state).