Improving International Competition Order : An Institutional Approach

This book offers guidelines for the upcoming discussions on reform, representing an attempt to work out conceptions for a better international competition order on the basis of the scientific approach 'law and economics'.

It presents the dominant concepts of competition policy as a basis for an international competition order and formulates a synthesis.

The result is a new neo-ordoliberal approach. Anti-dumping measures are analysed of the effects on international competition and resource allocation, and alternatives and improvements are suggested.

From national forms of competition policy a synthesis of international competition policies are derived.

Currently reforms of the international competition order are heavily discussed and here a selection of the most important suggestions are presented, compared, and evaluated.

Finally, this book offers strategies that might serve as second-best solutions, and though they may not be optimal for competition policy, they are politically feasible and an improvement on the current competition regulations.

They would be a back-up in case the WTO competition regulations aren't realizable.