Competition and Sustainability

Economic Policy and Options for Reform in Antitrust and Competition Law

Justus Haucap, Anja Rösner, Rupprecht Podszun, Tristan Rohner (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2538-2 (ISBN)

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Competition and Sustainability critically examines how the market economy can be preserved without compromising the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. Serving as a useful overview of the problems and solutions found in one of the most controversial issues in current antitrust doctrine, this topical book offers concrete policy options for EU competition law.

How can concerns over climate change, the supply chain, or animal welfare be integrated into antitrust? What can competition agencies do to help transform the market economy to a more sustainable one? Renowned experts in competition economics, law and sustainability answer these questions, and in doing so dissect issues such as cartels, exemptions, monopolisation, the environmental, social, and governance transformation, and merger control. Problems with government intervention in markets, quantification, and the danger of greenwashing are confronted with a thorough examination of the options for policy reform.

This indispensable book tackles the transformation to the sustainable market economy with competition at its core. It will prove useful to academics in the fields of competition and antitrust law, corporate law and governance, European law, environmental law, and political economy, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in legal and economic fields.

Justus Haucap, Director, DICE, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Anja Rösner, Postdoc, DICE, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Rupprecht Podszun, Director, Institute for Competition Law and Tristan Rohner, Postdoc, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Contents:
Preface
PART I BASICS: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
COMPETITION AND SUSTAINABILITY
1 Competition and sustainability: an introduction
2 Economic justification of further developments in
competition law
3 Patterns of antitrust reform options
PART II POLICY OPTIONS FOR A BETTER
INTEGRATION OF SUSTAINABILITY: STATUS
QUO AND POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS IN
COMPETITION LAW
4 Scope of application of competition law
5 Prohibition of restrictive business practices
6 Exemption
Philipp Offergeld
7 Abuse of dominance
8 Merger control
9 Procedure and sanctions
PART III OVERARCHING ISSUES
10 Definition of sustainability goals
Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof and Rüdiger Hahn
vi Competition and sustainability
11 Government intervention in markets
12 Economic assessment and quantification
13 The legitimacy problem and its resolution
Charlotte Kreuter-Kirchhof
14 The danger of greenwashing
Rüdiger Hahn and Alexandra May
15 Competition and sustainability: concluding remarks
Annex: Brief description of all options

Erscheinungsdatum	12.04.2024
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Wettbewerbsrecht
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-0353-2538-1 / 1035325381
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-2538-2 / 9781035325382
Zustand	Neuware