Competition Law and Antitrust

✍ Scribed by David J. Gerber;

• Publisher: OUP Premium
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Series
COMPETITION LAW AND ANTITRUST
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
1. Competition Law and Antitrust: A Global Introduction and Guide
A. The Project
B. Tools
C. What the Guide Is Not
D. Overview
E. Uses and Users
PART I. IDENTITY, GOALS, AND METHODS
2. What Is It? Competition Law’s Veiled Identity
A. Competition Law Veils
B. Competition Law as a Response to a Problem
C. A Core Definition
D. Variations on the Theme
3. The Goals and Uses of Competition Law
A. Stated Goals
B. Economic Goals
1. System-​Function Goals
a. Market structure
b. Economic efficiency
c. Consumer welfare
2. Outcome Goals
3. Economic Freedom
C. Social and Political Goals
1. Fairness: The Goal of Fairness Has Particularly Broad Political Appeal
2. Dispersing Power: The Level Playing Field
D. Unstated Goals
4. Institutions and Methods: Implementing Competition Law Goals
A. Legislatures: Roles and Influences
1. Action Messages
2. Statutory Features: Clues to Competition Law Dynamics
3. Compliance
a. Contract invalidity
b. Fines
c. Administrative intervention
d. Private enforcement
4. Changing the Legislation
5. The Legislature as a Direct Influence on Enforcement
B. Competition Authorities
1. Roles
a. The operating code
b. Gathering market data
c. Educating businesses
d. Cooperation and negotiation
e. Advocacy within government
f. Enforcement
2. Capacities, Capabilities, and Resources
a. Resources
b. Size, capabilities, and structure
3. Institutional Independence
a. Political pressures
b. Economic incentives
4. Passions
C. Courts
1. Roles
2. Court Types and Structures
3. Capacities and Incentives
D. How they Decide: Methods
1. Interpreting Statutes
2. Using Prior Cases
3. Using Economics
E. Coercion and Pressure
PART II. COMPETITION LAW’S TARGETS
5. Anticompetitive Agreements
A. Agreements among Competitors (Horizontal Agreements—​Cartels)
1. Uses of Horizontal Agreements
2. Identifying Harm
3. Targeting Cartels: Substantive Law
4. Detecting Cartel Agreements
5. Pursuing Cartel Agreements: Benefits and Costs
6. Global Dimensions
B. Agreements among Non-​Competitors (Vertical Agreements)
1. Uses and Contexts of Vertical Agreements
2. Identifying Harm
3. Specifying the Target
4. Detection and Proof
5. The Decision to Pursue: Tools and Costs
6. Global Patterns and Dynamics
6. Dominant Firm Unilateral Conduct: Monopolization and Abuse of Dominance
A. Power as the Starting Point
B. Defining the Market
C. Dominance and Monopoly Power
D. The Most Common Conduct Standard: Exclusion
E. Same Conduct Different Names
F. A Less Common Conduct Standard: Exploiting Consumers
G. Pursuing Unilateral Conduct
H. Economic Dependence and Relative Market Power
I. Global Patterns and Dynamics
7. Mergers and Acquisitions
A. Merger Law Contexts
B. Key Features
C. Premerger Notification
D. Substantive Review: Procedures
E. Substantive Review: Standards
1. Horizontal Mergers
2. Vertical Mergers
3. Conglomerate Mergers
F. Global Patterns and Dynamics
G. Comment
PART III. INDIVIDUAL COMPETITIONLAWS: MODELS, PATTERNS, AND KEYS
8. US Antitrust Law: Central, but Unique
A. Shaping US Antitrust
B. Goals
C. Methods and Substantive Law
D. Institutions and Procedures
1. The Competition Authorities: The DoJ and the FTC
2. Courts
3. Private Enforcement
E. The Dynamics of Antitrust
F. Targets
1. Agreements
G. State Antitrust Laws
H. The US in the Global Antitrust System
9. Competition Law in Europe
A. The Basic Architecture
B. Member State Roles
1. Member State Experience
2. Member States as the Primary Enforcers of EU Competition Law
C. EU Institutions: Actors and Voices
1. The Commission and Its Roles
2. EU Courts and the European Parliament
D. Goals
E. Substantive Law Methods and Targets
1. Basic Structure
2. Targets
F. Global Roles
10. Other Competition Laws: Shaping Factors
A. Shaping Factors
1. The Domestic Economy
2. Society
3. Culture and Religion
4. The Political Context
5. The Domestic Legal System
6. Global Roles and Relations
B. Shared Shaping Factors
1. East Asia: Embedded, Politically Supported Bureaucracy
a. China
b. Japan and South Korea
2. Socially Concentrated Power: Latin America
3. Emerging Markets: The Development Imperative
PART IV: GLOBAL DYNAMICS AND FORCESOF CHANGE
11. The Global System: Interacting and Adapting
A. Jurisdiction: The Framework of the System
1. Jurisdictional Principles
2. Some Consequences of the Jurisdictional Framework
B. The System in Motion: Adapting and Interacting
1. The Field of Interaction
2. Players
a. States
b. Transnational organizations
c. Secondary players
12. Challenges and Changes
A. Deep Globalization: Changing Competition’s Dimensions
B. The Digital Economy: New Forms of Competition
1. New Technologies in Traditional Forms of Competition
2. New Forms of Competition
3. Big Data’s Context
C. Impacts and Responses: Individual Regimes
1. Goals
2. Methods
3. Institutions
4. Targets
D. Impacts and Responses: The Global System
1. Players
2. Interactions
Notes on Using the Guide
Reading Lists
Index