This comprehensive research Handbook brings together cutting-edge legal and economic analysis into antitrust issues by leading experts from Europe, the USA, Canada, Mexico and South America. "The Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust" covers a wide-range of areas including: the meaning of consumer welfare, mergers in monopsony markets, unilateral effects, private and criminal enforcement, implementing competition policy in regulated sectors, abuse of intellectual property rights, competition remedies, international enforcement cooperation, complainants' rights, dominant firm pricing and tying and bundling.The Handbook also includes discursive consideration of the similarities and differences among the various regimes on either side of the Atlantic, as well as a look to future trends and applications in regional and global contexts. Offering a comparative view of pressing antitrust issues, this Handbook will be of great interest to academics, lawyers, practitioners and officials.
Contents:PrefacePhilip Marsden1. Unilateral Effects from Mergers: The Oracle CaseGregory J. Werden2. Transatlantic Issues in the European Merger Review of Oracle/PeopleSoft: Harmonious DissonanceThomas Vinje and Dieter Paemen3. Merger to Monopsony in Canada, Europe and the United States: A Selected International ComparisonMargaret Sanderson4. Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Regime Dynamics in US and EC Merger ControlAndrew Scott5. A Transatlantic Assessment of the Evolving Use of Behavioural Merger RemediesNeil Campbell, Casey Halladay and Omar Wakil6. Judicial Review of Mergers in Europe: Tetra Laval, GE/Honeywell and the Convergence Toward US StandardsJeremy Weinberg7. Discounts, Rebates and Selective Pricing by Dominant Firms: A Trans-Atlantic ComparisonChristian Ahlborn and David Bailey8. A Dominant Firm's Duty to Deal: EC and US Antitrust Law Compared Alison Jones9. Tying: A Transatlantic PerspectiveDavid W. Hull10. Abuse of Dominance Enforcement under Latin American Competition LawsRussell Pittman and Maria Tineo11. Substantial Convergence: The US Influence on the Development of the Regulatory Framework for IP Licensing in the EC Steven D. Anderman12. The Right Balance of Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Law: A Federal Trade Commission PerspectiveAlden F. Abbott, Suzanne Michel and Armando Irizarry13. Compulsory Access as an Antitrust Remedy: When, Why and How is it Applied in EU and US Law? Donald I. Baker and Tony Woodgate14. Regulation in Brazil: Retrospect and ProspectsGesner Oliveira and Thomas Fujiwara15. Regulatory and Competition Issues in the Transatlantic Air Transport Sector: Towards a Transatlantic Open Aviation AreaKarel van Miert and Daniel Calleja16. Issues Relating to the Enforcement and Application of Criminal Laws in Respect of CompetitionMark Furse17. The Brave New World of Extradition: A North Atlantic Treaty Alliance Against Cartels?Julian M. Joshua18. Lessons Learned from the US Experience in Private Enforcement of Competition LawsKevin E. Grady19. The Role of Non-litigation Strategies: Advocacy, Reports and Studies as Instruments of Competition PolicyWilliam E. Kovacic20. Information Please: Opening Antitrust to the Public: Why More European Union Court and Commission Documents and Hearings Should No Longer Be SecretDavid Lawsky21. The Goals of Antitrust: Thoughts on Consumer Welfare in the USAlbert A. Foer22. Competition Enforcement and ConsumersJuan Antonio Riviere y Marti23. The Distributional Consequences of AntitrustOkeoghene Odudu24. Merger Control and Cross-Border Transactions: A Pragmatic View on Cooperation, Convergence and What is in BetweenAriel Ezrachi25. Bilateral Enforcement Cooperation AgreementsAnestis Papadopoulos26. An Antitrust Analysis of the World Trade Organization's Decision in the US-Mexico Arbitration on Telecommunications ServicesJ. Gregory Sidak and Hal J. Singer27. Mexico's Competition Law: North American Origins, European PracticeAdriaan ten Kate and Gunnar Niels28. Competition Policies in Latin America, Post-Washington ConsensusJulian Pena. Index.