This book examines the legal standards – and their underlying economic rationale – for the protection of competition in … the innovation process, in both European competition law and American antitrust law. …

Recent years have seen a trend toward an ‘economics-based’ approach to the enforcement of European competition law. But … place in perspective the growing use of economics in European competition law enforcement by examining precisely how …

of the relationship between two fundamental areas of law and policy – intellectual property rights and competition law … follow-on innovation) is not impeded. The book concludes by suggesting how competition law could be used to complement the …

analysis of stylised competence allocation rules. The result is a proposal for a sound international multilevel competition … unique perspective on international competition policy and will be of interest to economists, legal scientists and … competition authorities as well as academics and practitioners of international governance and international relations and …

This outstanding collection of original essays brings together some of the leading experts in competition economics …, policy and law. They examine what lies at the core of the ‘economic approach to competition law’ and deal with its normative … and institutional limitations. In recent years the ‘more economic approach’ has led to a modernisation of competition law …