Table of Contents

Contents:

Introduction
Manfred Neumann and Jürgen Weigand

1. Globalization and the Natural Limits of Competition
Stephen Martin

2. Efficiency versus Market Power through Mergers
Dennis C. Mueller and B. Burcin Yurtoglu

3. Entrepreneurship and Competition Policy
David B. Audretsch

4. Trade Policy and Competition Policy: Conflict vs. Mutual Support
Eric W. Bond

5. Financial Services: Strategic Positioning and Competitive Issues
Arnoud W.A. Boot and Matej Marinč

6. The Political Economy of Antitrust
Charles Rowley and Anne Rathbone

7. Defining Antitrust Markets
Rachel Griffith and Lars Nesheim

8. Reconceptualizing Competition and Competition Policy in a New Institutional Economics-Perspective
Christian Kirchner

9. Horizontal Concentration, Endogenous Fixed Costs, Efficiency and Merger Control
Manfred Neumann

10. Assessing Potential Competition in Antitrust Markets
Vivek Ghosal

11. Fighting Hard Core Cartels
Kai Hüschelrath and Jürgen Weigand

12. Auctions and Competition Policy
Alexander Rasch and Achim Wambach

Index

About the Author

Edited by the late Manfred Neumann, formerly Professor Emeritus of Economics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Jürgen Weigand, Professor of Economics, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany

Reviews

’This comprehensive Handbook demonstrates that academic thinking, new and old, has a role to play in shaping modern competition policy.
*Gunnar Niels, Oxera*