This book collects experience, initiatives, and insights from thirty-two contributors associated with competition enforcement agencies in Europe and the rapidly emerging economic powerhouse of Brazil. Among the issues and topics covered are the following:0- to what extent competition agencies...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): F.P. Ramsey (1927), 'A Contribution to the Theory of Taxation', Economic Journal, 37 (145), March, 47-61 -- Harold Hotelling (1938), 'The General Welfare in Relation to Problems of Taxation and of Railway and Utility Rates', Econometrica, 6 (3), July,...

Seit einigen Jahren wird an einer neuen Spielverordnung für die Unterhaltungsautomatenwirtschaft gearbeitet. Der politische Willensbildungsprozess zog sich bis Ende 2005 hin. Letzte Änderungen wurden Mitte Oktober verfügt. Besonders problematisch stellt sich für die Branche das unmittelbare...

This paper explains the different trajectories of German and American competition policy and its permissiveness towards economic concentration in the last few decades. While the German political economy had moved to a stronger antitrust regime after 1945 and stuck to it even after the economic...