Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust

Handbook of Research in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Synopsis

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
• 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.