Competition and Sustainability (eBook)

Economic Policy and Options for Reform in Antitrust and Competition Law

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

eBook Download: PDF

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2539-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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

PART 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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Wettbewerbsrecht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• ISBN-10: 1-0353-2539-X / 103532539X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0353-2539-9 / 9781035325399