State-initiated restraints of competition / edited by Josef Drexl, Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany, Vicente Bagnoli, Professor of Law, Mackenzie Presbyterian University Law School, São Paulo, Brazil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drexl, Josef, editor.

Bagnoli, Vicente, editor.

Series:

ASCOLA competition law.

ASCOLA Competition Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antitrust law (International law).

Restraint of trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

States influence competition in the market in various ways. They often act themselves as market participants through state-owned enterprises. They regulate markets and specific sectors of the economy such as public utilities in particular. In some instances, market regulation explicitly aims to promote competition in the market. In other instances, regulatory schemes and decisions may inadvertently distort competition or openly promote conflicting objectives and even anti-competitive goals. Furthermore, states can distort competition among firms when they act as purchasers of goods and service

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; PART 1 State-owned enterprises; 1. Competitive neutrality: addressing government advantage in Australian markets; 2. Petrobrás: state monopoly and competition policy; 3. The principle of subsidiarity as the essential restriction on Peruvian state business activity under pro-competitive conditions; 4. The competition dimension of the European regulation of public sector information and the concept of an undertaking; PART 2 Pro-competitive regulation

5. Deepening the freedom of services through pro-competitive regulation: the case of the EU Services Directive6. Abuse of administrative monopoly in China; 7. The competition policy dimension of the regulation of water and sanitation services in Brazil; 8. Pro-competitive regulation of personal data protection in the EU; PART 3 Anti-competitive market intervention and regulation; 9. The suppression of the competition policy agenda in the context of an over-regulated economy: the case of Venezuela; 10. Competition and imposition of investment targets in the Brazilian pay-TV market

11. Intellectual property rights: from state-initiated restraints of competition to state-initiated competitionPART 4 Public procurement and state subsidies; 12. Benefits of competition policy in public procurement with special reference to India; 13. Distinguishing state and private subsidies: a closer look at the state character test; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78471-498-4