Competition Policy

• EU Antitrust Legislation

• EU Merger Legislation

•Motta Massimo (2004), Competition policy. Theory and Practice, Cambridge Univeristy Press

• Motta Massimo, Michele Polo and Helder Vasconcelos (2002), Merger Remedies in the European Union: An Overview, Mimeo EUI.

•Ivaldi Marc and Verboven Frank (2004), Quantifying the Effects from Horizontal Mergers in European Competition Policy, mimeo

•Ivaldi Marc, Jullien Bruno, Rey Patrick and Tirole Jean (2003), The Economics of Tacit Collusion, IDEI Working Paper, Report for DG Competition, European Commission

•Ivaldi Marc, Jullien Bruno, Rey Patrick and Tirole Jean (2003), The Economics of Unilateral Effects, IDEI Working Paper, Report for DG Competition, European Commission

Cesifo(2004), Conference on Recent trends in Antitrust Analysis

Katz Michael and Shapiro Karl(1998), Antitrust in Software Markets, University of California at Berkeley, mimeo

Shapiro Karl(1999), Competition Policy and Innovation, OECD report

Shapiro Karl(1999), Competition Policy in the Information Economy, University of California at Berkeley

Kovacic William E.and Katz Michael (1999), Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking, Journal of Economic Perspectives

Wu Lawrence, Williams Mark and Hofer Paul (2004), The Increasing Use of Empirical Methods in European Merger Enforcement: Lessons from the Past and a Look Ahead, NERA Working Paper

Intra-European Trade back to top

• Fontagné, Lionel, Michael Freudenberg and Nicholas Péridy (1997), Trade Patterns Inside the Single Market, CEPII Working paper.

•Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Verboven Frank (2001), Market Integration and Convergence to the Law of One Price: Evidence from the European Car Market, mimeo

•Car Price Differentials in the EU are getting lower according to the Commission

• EU State Aid Legislation

David Collie (2000), ‘State Aid in the European Union: The Prohibition of Subsidies in an Integrated Market’, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 18, pp. 867-884.

(3 Feruary 2004), The Commission's decides on Charleroi airport and Ryanair

(17 June 2004), The Council of Regions defends low cost airlines

Bilal S. and Nicolaides P.(1999), Understanding State Aid Policy in the European Community, European Institute of Public Administration

Besley T. and Seabright P.(1998), The Effects and policy Implications of STateAids to Industry: an Economic Analysis, Report for DG III, European Commission

Product Markets back to top

•(19 October 2004) Commission close to settle antitrust probe into Coca-Cola practices in Europe

• European Commission (2002), European Integration and the Functioning of Product Markets, European Economy Special Report, DG Economy and Finance, European Commission

•European Commission, DG Competition, Car Sector

•(24 June 2004) Commission condems Belgian architects fee system

•European Commission (2004), Report on Competition in Professional Services

•European Commission, DG Competition, Competition Policy and Liberal Professions