Competition law and enforcement are experiencing something of an awaking in the last decade. Central to the renewed … competition law scholarship and enforcement, it started moving centre stage more recently with the rise of what is collectively …—efficiency, welfare, economic freedom and protection of competitors, competition structure, fairness, single market integration, and …

We provide a comprehensive quantitative assessment of cartels and the related cartel enforcement process in the … European Union (EU) from 2001 to 2015. In a first step, we present a detailed characterization of all cartel cases decided by … of the public cartel enforcement process in the European Union - subdivided further into its duration, types of cartel …

This paper deals with the optimal enforcement of the competition law between the merger and anti-cartel policies. We … examine the interaction of these two branches of the competition policy given the budget constraint of the competition agency … thus able to conclude on the optimal competition policy mix. We show for instance that to the extent that a tougher anti …

political economy scholarship by arguing that European integration, in general, and the EU’s transnational regulatory influence … argue that European transnational regulatory integration involves an “EU-leash” that sets the boundaries for domestic …Although the EU’s Eastern periphery has been afflicted by a series of crises over the past two decades, the region …

political economy scholarship by arguing that European integration, in general, and the EU’s transnational regulatory influence … argue that European transnational regulatory integration involves an “EU-leash” that sets the boundaries for domestic …Although the EU’s Eastern periphery has been afflicted by a series of crises over the past two decades, the region …

können. Konkret finden wir, dass die EU-Regionalpolitik, die in die Entwicklung von rückständigen Regionen investiert, dazu … Investitionen das Vertrauen in demokratische Institutionen und verringern die Unzufriedenheit mit der EU. … effectively decrease populist support. Specifically, EU Regional Policy investing into the development of lagging-behind regions …

. Their assumption was – and this assumption did prove to be correct in practice – that it would take years until the EU …

Union that has been founded by seven EU member states in 2007 and which is an EU law enforcement unit that aims at … enforcement strategies.This background paper describes the Maritime Analysis and Operations Center (Narcotics) of the European … intercepting the drug smuggling in the Atlantic Ocean. It is run by the Portuguese Government in Lisbon, co-financed by the EU and …

The rapidly evolving blockchain technology space has put decentralisation back into the focus of the design of techno … goals. In this entry we address how blockchains and distributed ledgers think about decentralisation. …