Competition Laws in Conflict

Competition Laws in Conflict
Author: Richard Allen Epstein
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780844742014

Moreover, states have powerful incentives to permit domestic industries to exploit outsiders, or even to facilitate such practices. High-profile antitrust conflicts, from the prosecution of Microsoft in state, national, and international forums to the transatlantic disagreement over the European Union's merger policy, illustrate the difficulties. Possible solutions to these problems range from improved intergovernmental cooperation, to direct policy harmonization, to a new regime of "structured competition" in antitrust policy modeled on U.S. corporation law.