Publications

While forces of globalization have created a genuine global marketplace, global rules safeguarding the competitive process in this marketplace have not emerged. International cooperation among national regulators and enforcers is therefore needed to effectively and efficiently create a competitive global business-environment. The variety of legal instruments available to the EU in this regard led to this doctoral study, which undertakes an ...

Globalization increases international competition, but it also entails an intensified risk for abusive and anti-competitive behaviour. The European Union's (EU's) capacity to rise to this challenge depends on the international mode of governance it decides to pursue and the determination with which it does so. The EU has always been a strong advocate of competition law within a WTO context. Recently, however, it has been far more active on a ...