Networks and hierarchy : completing an experimentalist architecture? -- Experimentalism and the choice of enforcement technique -- Peer review in experimentalist market regulation -- Courts and experimentalist competition governance -- Experimentalist governance and international antitrust.

This working paper addresses two dimensions in which transnational or supranational regulatory regimes may be regarded as self-sufficient, providing some reasons, limits and pitfalls from such a tendency. The focus of both parts is on competition policy, which is of particular importance because...

The article contests the claim that EU private law is narrowly circumscribed by a market rationality. Such a claim tracks broader criticism of EU functional legal integration, although it tends to obscure the underlying transformative pressures on private law and regulation and the role EU law...

This symposium issue, guest edited by Tim Büthe and Umut Aydin, brings together eight papers exploring, from multiple different disciplinary perspectives, “success and limits” of competition law and policy under conditions where they might be considered "most unlikely to succeed" (as the...

Antitrust law has entered a new phase of an always-controversial existence. The role of antitrust in moderating interfirm relationships depends both on the problems that arise in such relationships and the institutional capacity of antitrust decision-makers to respond to those problems...

The working paper collects the research presented in the second annual external workshop of the ERPL Project that took place on 16 and 17 May 2013 at the EUI in Florence. The second year of the project was devoted to the collection of empirical evidence in the various sub-projects, as well as in...