The European Competition Network was launched in May 2004 in order to ensure a more coherent and effective network of competition authorities to enforce the Treaty and to ensure a more level playing field to enterprises operating throughout the Single Market. After five years of enforcement the...

The first wave of globalization, commonly dated from 1870 to 1913, was not only a more gradual phenomenon throughout the 19th century, but closely related with the emergence of most the Western European Offshoots as developed economies. The massive transfer of human capital and transplant of...

Exclusionary practices are at the heart of abuses of dominance or monopolization. Predatory pricing is one of the most important exclusionary practices, because it lays the foundations of the most important foreclosure theories. Post-Chicago theories of predatory pricing are based on asymmetric...

The recent problems of the Euro arose in the context of the sustainability of the Public Debt in the Euro-Med countries and Ireland, in the aftermath of the Great Recession and the associated financial crisis. This paper discusses the problems of the Euro-Med and how they can affect the Euro. It...

Using a law and economics model of competition law enforcement we try to answer the following questions: What characterizes the effectiveness of a competition law regime? How has competition law enforcement spread around the world? What factors limit the enforcement of competition law? And...

The election of the new democratic administration in the United States in November 2008 was overwhelmingly greeted in Europe as an opportunity to reinforce transatlantic cooperation and convergence in competition law and policy. This study evaluates the plausibility of greater convergence...

The crisis in the Euro Zone is due to two factors: over-borrowing by some states and credit booms in others. The architecture of the Euro remains incomplete, due to lack of enforcement of fiscal discipline and an integrated bank supervision. The paper proposes a staged and comprehensive approach...

It has been now about four years since the eruption of the Financial Crisis of 2007, and major reforms of the banking system have been achieved in the U.S. with the enactment of the Frank-Dodd Act in 2010, and several legislative initiatives under way in the EU that are planned to be completed...