Competition Policy in the EU

Xavier Vives is Professor of Economics and Finance at IESE Business School. He has been Research Professor at Institut d'Analisi Economica (CSIC) and ICREA-UPF, Professor at INSEAD, Harvard Universty, the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Universita Pompeu Fabra. Professor Vives's research has appeared in leading international journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Political Economy. He is also the author of Information and Learning in Markets (Princeton UP, 2008) and Oligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools (MIT Press, 1999). He has been editor of international academic journals and has received several research prizes and honors such as being elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1992 and of the European Economic Association in 2004. Her has a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Design of Competition Policy Institutions for the 21st Century- the Experience of the Europan Commission and DG Competition ; 3. Article 81 Revisited: Deciphering EC Antitrust Goals and Rules ; 4. Some Economics of Abuse of Dominance ; 5. Cartels in the European Union: Economics. Law, Practice ; 6. An Economic Assessment of EC Merger Control: 1957-2007 ; 7. State Aids: Economic Analysis and Practice in the EU ; 8. Competition Policy and Sector-Specific Regulations for Network Industries ; 9. European Telecoms Regulation: Past Performance and Prospects ; 10. Regulation and Competition Policy in the Banking Sector ; 11. EU Regulation and Competition Policy among the Energy Utilities ; 12. Competition Policy in the European Union and the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Although written mainly by economists, the book is easily accessible to nonspecialists. It provides a useful assessment of the current debates on EU Competition Policy...[a] very effective book