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Publisher Brookings Institution/Royal Institute of International Affairs
Release Date April 2000
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Contents
Chapter 1: Antitrust Policy in an Evolving Global Marketplace
Chapter 2: Transatlantic Cooperation on Competition Policy
Chapter 3: Economic Considerations in Merger Review
Chapter 4: Substantive Convergence and Procedural Dissonance in Merger Review
Chapter 5: Anticartel Cooperation
Chapter 6: The Divide on Verticals
Case Studies
The Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Merger
The American Airlines and British Airways Alliance
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The Treatment of Transatlantic Liner Shipping under EU and U.S. Law
The First Microsoft Case
Two Joint Ventures in International Telecommunications
The WorldCom-MCI Case
The A.C. Nielsen Case
The Amadeus Global Travel Distribution Case
Index
Overview
How will the rapid growth of trade, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and international joint ventures alter antitrust enforcement? Can national antitrust enforcement guard against anticompetitive corporate practices in a globalizing world? Or will international friction increase as nations disagree over antitrust cases, like the Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger? Recognizing the sheer volume of transatlantic commerce, the EU and U.S. have long cooperated on antitrust matters, but what has that cooperation achieved? And how far should such cooperation go in the future? This volume addresses these questions in the context of antitrust policies towards cartels, mergers and acquisitions, and vertical restraints. Leading experts elucidate the changing nature of antitrust enforcement on both sides of the Atlantic, with a keen eye to future multilateral, as well as bilateral, developments.
