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

• Contents:IntroductionManfred Neumann and Jürgen Weigand1. Globalization and the Natural Limits of CompetitionStephen Martin2. Efficiency versus Market Power through MergersDennis C. Mueller and B. Burcin Yurtoglu3. Entrepreneurship and Competition PolicyDavid B. Audretsch4. Trade Policy and Competition Policy: Conflict vs. Mutual SupportEric W. Bond5. Financial Services: Strategic Positioning and Competitive IssuesArnoud W.A. Boot and Matej Marinč6. The Political Economy of AntitrustCharles Rowley and Anne Rathbone7. Defining Antitrust MarketsRachel Griffith and Lars Nesheim8. Reconceptualizing Competition and Competition Policy in a New Institutional Economics-PerspectiveChristian Kirchner9. Horizontal Concentration, Endogenous Fixed Costs, Efficiency and Merger ControlManfred Neumann10. Assessing Potential Competition in Antitrust MarketsVivek Ghosal11. Fighting Hard Core CartelsKai Hüschelrath and Jürgen Weigand12. Auctions and Competition PolicyAlexander Rasch and Achim WambachIndex

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

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

• Contents:IntroductionManfred Neumann and Jürgen Weigand1. Globalization and the Natural Limits of CompetitionStephen Martin2. Efficiency versus Market Power through MergersDennis C. Mueller and B. Burcin Yurtoglu3. Entrepreneurship and Competition PolicyDavid B. Audretsch4. Trade Policy and Competition Policy: Conflict vs. Mutual SupportEric W. Bond5. Financial Services: Strategic Positioning and Competitive IssuesArnoud W.A. Boot and Matej Marinč6. The Political Economy of AntitrustCharles Rowley and Anne Rathbone7. Defining Antitrust MarketsRachel Griffith and Lars Nesheim8. Reconceptualizing Competition and Competition Policy in a New Institutional Economics-PerspectiveChristian Kirchner9. Horizontal Concentration, Endogenous Fixed Costs, Efficiency and Merger ControlManfred Neumann10. Assessing Potential Competition in Antitrust MarketsVivek Ghosal11. Fighting Hard Core CartelsKai Hüschelrath and Jürgen Weigand12. Auctions and Competition PolicyAlexander Rasch and Achim WambachIndex

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

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

• Contents:IntroductionManfred Neumann and Jürgen Weigand1. Globalization and the Natural Limits of CompetitionStephen Martin2. Efficiency versus Market Power through MergersDennis C. Mueller and B. Burcin Yurtoglu3. Entrepreneurship and Competition PolicyDavid B. Audretsch4. Trade Policy and Competition Policy: Conflict vs. Mutual SupportEric W. Bond5. Financial Services: Strategic Positioning and Competitive IssuesArnoud W.A. Boot and Matej Marinč6. The Political Economy of AntitrustCharles Rowley and Anne Rathbone7. Defining Antitrust MarketsRachel Griffith and Lars Nesheim8. Reconceptualizing Competition and Competition Policy in a New Institutional Economics-PerspectiveChristian Kirchner9. Horizontal Concentration, Endogenous Fixed Costs, Efficiency and Merger ControlManfred Neumann10. Assessing Potential Competition in Antitrust MarketsVivek Ghosal11. Fighting Hard Core CartelsKai Hüschelrath and Jürgen Weigand12. Auctions and Competition PolicyAlexander Rasch and Achim WambachIndex

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