Improving International Competition Order: An Institutional Approach - Paperback

by C. Conrad (Author)

This book offers guidelines for the upcoming discussions on reform, representing an attempt to work out conceptions for a better international competition order on the basis of the scientific approach 'law and economics'. It presents the dominant concepts of competition policy as a basis for an international competition order and formulates a synthesis. The result is a new neo-ordoliberal approach. Anti-dumping-measures are analysed of the effects on international competition and resource allocation, and alternatives and improvements are suggested. From national forms of competition policy a synthesis of international competition policies are derived. Currently reforms of the international competition order are heavily discussed and here a selection of the most important suggestions are presented, compared, and evaluated. Finally, this book offers strategies that might serve as second-best solutions, and though they may not be optimal for competition policy, they are politically feasible and an improvement on the current competition regulations. They would be a back-up in case the WTO competition regulations aren't realizable.

Author Biography

DR CHRISTIAN CONRAD has worked as a research intern at the EU Commission in Brussels, Belgium and has conducted interviews with the International Trade Administration and International Trade Commission during his time as a visiting researcher at Georgetown University, USA. He has also worked as an assistant in the economics department at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Germany and has published several articles in the Journal of World Trade and World Competition.