This paper provides an analysis of the European Commission (EC) decisions on state aid control using data on 550 state aid cases approved by the EC between 1998 and 2009. More specifically, we measure the determinants of the duration of state aid, total budget of state aid and daily budget of...

The regulation of mergers that go beyond national borders within the European Union (EU) common market has its origins in the adoption of the Council Regulation 4064/89 of 21 December on the Control of Concentrations between Undertakings (Regulation 4064/89). Regulation 4064/89 was as a result...

On 11 June 2013 the European Commission adopted a package of instruments to facilitate damages claims by victims of antitrust damages. The main element of the package is a proposal for a directive on antitrust damages. The aim of this article is to give an overview of the content of the proposed...

Similar to the two North American countries — Canada and the United States — the European Union has a fairly long history with the adoption and administering of their competition law. The heterogeneity characterizing the European Union, however, meant that the European competition law had to...

This paper argues that the New Zealand legislation against abuse of market power, and subsequent jurisprudence, is ineffective to deal with the problem, in particular by relying on a counterfactual test - would a firm without market power have done the same thing, and if so, the firm with market...