"Harnessing the tension between "equity" and "efficiency" and achieving the optimal equilibrium between these policy objectives, has long been one of the major questions bedevilling economics and, more generally, political philosophy in liberal democracies but also beyond."

Drawing both from earlier policy discussions and more recent empirical findings, this paper explores the functioning of the European Competition Network. It is structured in two parts: (i) part one aims first to identify the various driving forces that have prompted the switch towards a network...

Since five years now, the financial crisis dominates the EU agenda. What started as the tail of the US subprime crisis turned into a “systemic” issue with the freezing of the wholesale funding market subsequent to Lehman Brothers' filing for Chapter 11 protection on September 15, 2008 (at...

The exchange and the use of information within the European Competition Network is a key feature of the cooperative enforcement system established by Regulation 1/2003. So is the autonomy of Member States in designing their own national procedural framework for the application of Articles 101...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the institutions of antitrust enforcement in the United States and to test those institutions against a set of norms used to assess the operations of administrative agencies. The paper is part of a broader project studying global administrative agencies....