TY - JOUR
T1 - EU Competition Policy Since 1990
T2 - How Substantial is Convergence Towards U.S. Antitrust?
AU - Bartalevich, Dzmitry
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In spite of the evidence of strong influence on the incorporation of policy provisions from the U.S. antitrust into the recent competition policy reforms in the European Union (EU), few considerable attempts have been made to analyze the influence of U.S. antitrust on EU competition policy in anticartel enforcement policies, antimonopoly regulation, and the regulation of mergers and acquisitions. The purpose of this article is to fill the gap by attempting to link EU competition policy with U.S. antitrust, provide a critical overview of the most important elements of European competition policy reforms, carry out a comparative analysis between EU and U.S. competition policies, detect convergence or divergence, and account for the degree of convergence and for the relevant mechanisms triggering convergence. The main focus is on the analysis of anticartel enforcement policy, antimonopoly policy, and merger control.
AB - In spite of the evidence of strong influence on the incorporation of policy provisions from the U.S. antitrust into the recent competition policy reforms in the European Union (EU), few considerable attempts have been made to analyze the influence of U.S. antitrust on EU competition policy in anticartel enforcement policies, antimonopoly regulation, and the regulation of mergers and acquisitions. The purpose of this article is to fill the gap by attempting to link EU competition policy with U.S. antitrust, provide a critical overview of the most important elements of European competition policy reforms, carry out a comparative analysis between EU and U.S. competition policies, detect convergence or divergence, and account for the degree of convergence and for the relevant mechanisms triggering convergence. The main focus is on the analysis of anticartel enforcement policy, antimonopoly policy, and merger control.
KW - EU competition Policy
KW - U.S. Antitrust
KW - Convergence
KW - Regulation
KW - Anticartel Enforcement
KW - Leniency Notice
KW - Abuse of Market Dominance
KW - Merger Control
KW - Meger regulation
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1851-6599
VL - 6
SP - 273
EP - 294
JO - Journal of Centrum Cathedra
JF - Journal of Centrum Cathedra
IS - 2
ER -