Editors:
- Provides state-of-the-art insights into recent developments in competition law and economics
- Addresses the impacts that big data analytics and disruptive technologies have on competition law and economics
- Shares in-depth information on the economic analysis of recent developments in competition law and policy in Europe and the United States
Part of the book series: Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship (EALELS, volume 7)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundations of Competition Law
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Applications of Competition Law
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Intellectual Property Rights and Patents
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Impact of Information Technology
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Energy Markets and Competition Law
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About this book
This book further develops both the traditional and the behavioural approach to competition law, and applies these approaches to a variety of timely issues. It discusses several fundamental questions regarding competition law and economics, and explores the applications of competition law and economics. In turn, the book analyses the interplay of intellectual property rights and patents in various aspects of competition law, and investigates the impacts that developments in information technology, such as big data analytics, have on competition law. The book also discusses the impact of energy law reforms on energy markets from a competition law perspective.
Competition law is a classic field of economic analysis. This is largely due to the fact that competition law uses terms such as market, price, and competition and must therefore rely on economic know-how and analyses. In the United States, economic analysis has greatly influenced not just the scholarship on antitrust law, but also judicial decisions and agency enforcement. Antitrust law and economics are based on the traditional paradigm of neoclassical economics, which relies on the assumption that the market players, i.e. consumers and producers, are rational. This approach to competition law was later received in Europe under the banner of a “more economic approach”.
For the past two decades, behavioural law and economics, which seeks to generate better insights into legal phenomena by providing more realistic psychological foundations for economic models, and to offer a multitude of applications in legislation and legal adjudication, has challenged the traditional economic approach to law in general and, more recently, to competition law specifically.
Keywords
- Competition Law and Economics
- Antitrust Law and Economics
- Behavioural Antitrust Law and Economics
- Behavioural Economics
- Big Data Analytics
- Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law
- Patents and Innovation in Competition Law
- Antitrust and algorithmic nudging
- Energy and Competition Law
- Disruptive Technologies and Competition Law
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Law, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Klaus Mathis
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The School of Law, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
Avishalom Tor
About the editors
Avishalom Tor is Professor of Law and Director of the Notre Dame Research Program on Law and Market Behavior (ND LAMB). He is also a Global Professor of Law, University of Haifa Faculty of Law. His particular fields of expertise are Behavioural Law and Economics, Antitrust Law, and Behavioural Decision Research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Developments in Competition Law and Economics
Editors: Klaus Mathis, Avishalom Tor
Series Title: Economic Analysis of Law in European Legal Scholarship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11611-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11610-1Published: 26 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11611-8Published: 18 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2512-1294
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1308
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 355
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Economic Law, Trade Law, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, International Economics, Law and Economics