This comprehensive research Handbook brings together cutting-edge legal and economic analysis into antitrust issues by leading experts from Europe, the USA, Canada, Mexico and South America. The Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust covers a wide-range of areas including :
– The meaning of consumer welfare ;
– Mergers in monopsony markets ;
– Unilateral effects ;
– Private and criminal enforcement ;
– Implementing competition policy in regulated sectors ;
– Abuse of intellectual property rights ;
– Competition remedies ;
– International enforcement cooperation ;
– Complainants’ rights ;
– Dominant firm pricing ;
– Tying and bundling.
The Handbook also includes discursive consideration of the similarities and differences among the various regimes on either side of the Atlantic, as well as a look to future trends and applications in regional and global contexts.
Offering a comparative view of pressing antitrust issues, this Handbook will be of great interest to academics, lawyers, practitioners and officials.